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Barden
1975
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Left out some lures, baited with a few tired claudious
and (my live traps), alfalfa pellets. Anita had 2
Cruelcoupe (a huge one and a juvenile) long before
dinner.
Mr. Marful, the owner of this property, came by
at 7:30 and invited us for tea at his home ½ hour
west (between our camp and the Sage Pinto mines).
We returned at dusk (9:30) and checked traps and
jacklighted. Traps held only 2 aulico, 1 abdon longi,
and 1 Reithra, and we saw only 3 or 4 Reithra, one
of them quite close. Morning, no wind, clear sky.
During the late afternoon Anita was poking her finger
into a freshly excavated small burrow and felt a
mouse; it was a Geopu. In dense grass (brush)
such as Sarcia in the overgrazed railroad right-of-
way.
Nov. 13 Traps held 5 Reithras (one a receptacle), and assorted
sized aulico and smallish abdon longi. Total
catch for the 39 traps from late yesterday afternoon
to this morning (picked up traps):
6 Reithra, 8 aulico, 5 abdon longi, and 1 Geopu.
all traps were set in runway, tunnel, or at
barrow openings. Certain traps caught a series of
animals, not always same species. No doubt that
Reithra, aulico, and abdon longi were all using
the same burrows. We caught nothing in the tunnel
from which the trees was harvested yesterday. We