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Transcription
1934
7.
General Account
24.
Northwest slope of Grizzly Peak, Berkeley
Alameda Co., Calif.
Last evening I set 14 traps,
6 large rat traps and 8 small
mouse traps. The mouse traps
with the exception of three were
set on a grassy hillside with
scattered clumps of dry thistle
as protection. Each trap was
set near a small opening or burrow
that had the appearance of recently
being used by the presence of
tails and freshly gnawed
grass stems. On one of these
traps a full grown Microtus
californicus californicus.
The bait consisting of oat meal
was taken from two of the
traps, but unseizing. The large
traps, 6 of them, were set
along the small stream
which bordered by brush
and a canopy of bay trees
and a few oaks. These
traps were set in likely
looking trails in the brush
or in at the base
of trees containing wood