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Lee Arnold
1937
near Smith Creek Cave, 5800ft; Thl Morieh White Pine Co., Nevada
Itinerary
June 7 Cnemidophorus.
June 8 Last night Johnson, Fitch and myself
drove east of camp to set out traps. I
set out my line of 42 museum traps and
25 catchalives 3 miles east of camp on
approximately the Nevada-Utah border.
All of the traps were set among low brush
ranging up to 1 foot in height. The soil
was hard with patches of dust. There
was a thin layer of small rocks over
the ground which formed a rough surface.
While setting traps I noted numerous
badger holes. These were for the most
part along the edges of washes where
they could dig without going vertically.
I noted a pair of Ravens and two
Western Nighthawks while setting traps.
This morning I did not have any mice
in my catchalive traps. In the others
there were:
4 Dipodomys (3♀+1♂)
1 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂
1 Onychomys leucogaster Imm. ♂.
This region did not have as much
sign of animals as those trapped in
on previous nights. While hunting
in the creek bottom near my trap
line I shot 3 Cnemodophorus. One