Alaska field notes, v4411
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Chichagof Island Hooniah. (Port Frederick) June 21-27-1907. We arrived at Hooniah P.O. on the morning of June 20 and made camp about 5 miles west of the town where a large stream emptied into the ocean. The river valley ran back 10 or 15 miles and was from 1 to 4 miles broad. Part of this valley near the river banks were covered with willow and Salmon berry thickets which gave way farther back to firm open grass covered meadows many acres in extent. The sides of the valleys and the mountains were covered, as usual with spruce and hemlock timber with thickets of devil club and Salmon berry as underbrush. Around an old Indian house I cought some 10 Peromyscus which seem to be different from either the Baranof or Admiralty Island mice as they were not so large as those taken on Baranof and not so small as those secured on Admir- alty. Shrews were quite numerous but were smaller and had whiter