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W.B.Davis
1935.
2 mi. S. Melba, Canyon Co., Idaho. May 30.
Rained most of the day, and especially
heavy this evening. Stayed in camp
all day putting up specimens gotten
yesterday. Twining took the only
specimen for the day - a Citellus
idahoensis - which I put up,
2 mi. S Payette, between the Payette and
Snake rivers, Payette Co., Idaho. May 31.
we left our Melba camp about
9:00 A.M. and drove to Nampa where
we got supplies and I shipped four
boxes of specimens to M. V. Z. From
Nampa we drove to Caldwell, then
Fruitland and Payette.
About 4½ mi. SE New Plymouth
I stopped to examine what I thought
was a dead C. idahoensis in the
road. Noticed that I had a leaking
tire so while I repaired it Aldrich
and Twining hunted in the low
Artemisia tridentata for squirrels.
They came back with a live large
adult male. It was in an old
stove and was caught by the gloved
hands of Aldrich. It is now in a cage
and I hope to keep it alive. The
whole territory where this animal