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Feathers
Jan. 19, 1934.
500+ ft., Colorado R., 1½ mi. S. & E.
Searchlight, Clark Co., Nevada.
Mephitis mephitis.
I caught a female shunk in arrowweed association near here today. Its stomach was full of Dipodomys that I had used for bait. It was not fat. Hind feet wanting.
Jan. 21, 1934.
A male shunk was caught in a trap, set at the edge of the mead in a burrow.
The shunk was quite fat. Its stomach contained merely the rats I had used for bait. Between the skin and flesh of the neck, were numerous worms. They were about 12 inches long, and about—the thickness of a household.