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W.B. Davis
1935.
Elba, Cassia Co., Idaho, June '2.
I remember seeing squirrels there
in 1918.
On my way over here from Rupert
on the 5L I collected a single young
squirrel which appears to be C.
[illegible]
There is quite a colony
near Cottrell, about 10 miles east
of Elba. They were living on an
area devoid of Artemisia, but one
heavily covered with grasses. The
typical weak leurodow whistle
was given by these squirrels,
but their burrow systems were
lacking in the big mounds found
at the type locality of leurodow.
Here at Elba I find that C. oregane
and C. armatus meet and overlap in
their ranges. Each appears to occupy
the same type of habitat as far as I
can see. Each appears to be limited
to watered areas and both can be
taken on this ranch, although I have
never taken the two in the same
limited area - the territory of a colony.
C. armatus is the common one
on this ranch and its range extends
west as far as Mt. Harrison at
least. I found several individuals of