Field notes, v647
Page 409
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W.B. Davis 1935. Kaufman, Clark Co., Idaho, June 27, 423 The next morning - June 28 - I collected my traps and found no Onychomye. I had caught 15 Spodomye, 11♂-4♀, and one Eutamiae minimum), I saw one Citellus mollis in this area, but could not collect it. I broke camp about 7:00 A.M. and drove to Blackfoot for breakfast and then headed for Arco. Between Morland and Taber the Artemisia was short and there was a great deal of the semi bare loose types of soil and mounds of C. mollis were abundant. I stopped about 9:00 A.M. about 2 miles SE of Taber - a R.R. station + a house for a section crew - and collected squirrels. The old ones were very wary and when I was at a considerable distance - as far as 300 yards - they raw for the burrow and crouched in the entrance). I located them by looking far ahead and noting any that raw for a mound and then slowly approached it. When the squirrel is crouched on all fours on the mound it is very