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W.B. Davis
1935.
426
Kayman, Clark Co., Idaho. June 27.
river at Blackfoot and since)
they are apparently limited to areas
of moisture, they could hardly
have moved across the desert
to Arco but must have come
from the mountains. I believe
this squirrel has reached there
by migration thru the Bitterroot
Mountains and thus into the
Big Lost River Mts. and thence
down the river to Arco. I talked
with the local "squirrel" man
and he informed me that C. arnott
extended its range up the valley
as far as Mackay and perhaps
farther). From there on north,
C. columbianus was the dominant
squirrel. I asked him about C. mollis
and was told there were none
to be found in the country.
I spent the greater part of
the afternoon in driving about
looking for C. mollis and found
a small colony along the railroad
tracks about 31 mi. SE of Arco. They,
again, were in that loose type of
soil. I succeeded in taking five,
only one of which was an adult.