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W.B. Davis
1935.
Kaufman, Clark Co., Idaho, June 27.
438
traps, two to a set. The burrows
are quite small in circumference
diameter also) in most cases and
I had some difficulty in getting the
Muscle traps set. In almost every
case the burrows were less than
6" below the surface.
I saw no C. artemisiae, but did
see and take two C. elegans. I found
them at Kaufman too, but no
further down stream. These squirrels
had burrows in a dry area that
supported scant vegetation near
an alfalfa field, they foraged. The
whistle of these squirrels is quite
similar to that of C. oreagana.
I heard several Marmots in
the rocky outcroppings near a
ranch 2 mi up the creek from
Kaufman. The owner of the ranch
said they had been doing consider-
able damage to his hay crop and
that he had been trying to poison
them with strychnine on fresh
alfalfa with little success. I believe
they are mosophora. I set out no
mouse nor set traps. Muskrats are
reported as being present in the creek.