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KDixon
1947
Sorex
July 18. 2 mi NE Cooke, 8000 ft., Park Co., Montana
Caught ♂ (182) at edge of slowflowing brook
1-1½ ft wide in area of Picea engelmannii forest
(trees 80 ft approx). Herbaceous vegetation of area
was Thalictrum, Ribes, and grasses. Considerable
moss on moist ground. The shrew had been chewed
on the middle of the back, apparently by another
shrew.
July 20. 2 mi NE Cooke, 8000 ft., Park Co., Montana.
Caught ♂ (196) in trap baited with oatmeal between
two fallen logs 8 inches apart 10 ft from a running
brook at the edge of Picea-Abies forest and a
willow bog. Damp area with considerable moss;
young conifers to 15 feet and dwarf willow 2 ft
high in immediate vicinity.
Took ♂ (197) in oatmeal-baited trap at base
of 7-foot Picea beside a bog pool 3 feet across.
Herbaceous vegetation entirely Carex about one foot
high. Fallen logs 4 inches in diameter in vicinity
of trap. Bog in clearing for firebreak, 75 yards
wide with Picea-Abies forest on either side. Trap set
20 feet from stream and 50 yards from where ♂ (196) was
taken.