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W.B. Davis
1935.
2 mi. E Hagerman, Gooding Co., Idaho. May 18.
by the Marmote. I placed it under a
brush and came back for it about half
hours later and found that a Mappie
had pecked a hole in the shoulder area.
I set out four steel traps, one
at a likely looking burrow under a
huge boulder near camp, baited with
the body of a squirrel; the other three
were placed in likely looking places
in the marsh for Muskrates.
The mouse traps I had left set in
the marsh contained nothing. I
left them set.
May 19. Same locality.
I visited the traps in the marsh
and found two Sorex in the mouse
traps. Collected these traps. In the
steel traps I had caught only one
Coot. Left all these set.
In the gopher sets on the other
(south) side of the river I found I
had caught 6 Thomomys. These
appear to me to be very grey in
color. I collected all traps in which
a catch had been made and in
the afternoon made 5 new sets in
Mr. Vader's field and also 5 sets in