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Koford
50
Journal
October 15, 1955
N. Larimer + NW Wald G, Glo.
With Dr. Paul Moulton of Cal. Univ. + 3 students visited 3 Cyprin
ge towns & searched for rattlesnakes, but found none. Clear
warm, light breeze. Saw 1 Agkistrodon on Falco Medicus.
October 16, 1955 Visited Sec. 10 colony 9 mi. N. Waukly
4 tools 1 Cyprin & 1 Tetrades from 15 steel traps set
then. No catch in 15 snap traps set near C. D. hole (one tiny
snap trap change yesterday). Took up traps. Set 3 near burn area in silty
soil as low river. One Sylpholagus in steel trap at Cyprin burn.
October 17, 1955
N. Larimer G, Glo.
Visited steel traps at Sec. 10 & took all up. Tools: no
Cyprin, 1 jaw. Sylpholagus (small). 3 snap traps held
on Onychomys (discovered; see species notes). At Sec. 10 colony
I shot 6 Cyprin for examination. NW Weld G, Glo.
October 18, 1955 at C.C. area buffalo ranch 1 mi. N. of
Fochpat I shot 6 Ortho Cyprin for examination. At CPER
shot 2. Saw 2 eagles & 1 Catalina at CPER. Calm,
warm, but prod. wind.
NW weld G., Glo.
October 19, 1955. Examined carcasses a.m. Dr. p.m. visited
Terry Ranch near Wyoming line & viewed several Cyprin
traps. Warm, high clouds, moderate breeze. Mr. F.T. Collins, Gla
October 20, 1955. With Dr. Beidelmann & ecology class
visited colony near town & dug burrows, surveyed mounds,
amount soil in mounds, a relation to slope. Oil
sprinkling
except; sprinkling of rain in p.m.
October 24, 1955. Depart → Boston
Drove to Ft. Morgan from Ft. Collins & took train for
Chicago on way to A.O.U. meetings in Boston. Region east of