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Paul DeBenedicti
1961
Eutremes? quadramaculatus Faemoena
25 June North side of Donner lake, 6000 ft, 4 mi. W.
E.
quadramaculatus Truchee, Nevada Co., Calif. - trapped a ? of this species in a patch of chapparal behind the house between 10 and 12 A.M. (Had another which was released by my sister). Area is quite rocky, more or less in the sun, covered mainly with a low (3 ft?) manzanita and a spiny white? Ceanothus. Under growth grass (2-3 types), cone flowers, ferns, and two small pines. Area in the sun most of the day. Animals are active almost all day/boy.
26 June Another animal in an open area by a pine tree. Several others have been observed moving through here in the A.M. This ? former animal show almost no fat. Animals occasionally lie exposed on branch calling loudly, especially in the evening. Several times mistaken for birds.
25 Jme. North side of Donner lake, 6000 ft, 4.2 mi. W.
E. aemoenus Truchee, Nevada Co., Calif - trapped 5 animals in an open chapparal area in the hills by Donner Lake. The area is a 30 deg slope, rocky, of loose dry sand (granite). Most of the area is covered with a sparse low manzanita mixed with a low white? Ceanothus and low grasses, cone flowers, and a few small pines (ponderosa). The area is bounded on all sides by tall ponderosa pines, with little undergrowth, though much of the forest is fairly open. The largest animal was taken in an area of