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Behle
1933.
Coyote Peak, 3000 ft. Humboldt Co. Calif.
June 12.
mole workings were observed
up to the summit and remains
of two skunks were found put out
laid out as poison bait for a
killer coyote that has been
preying upon lambs from the
Fyoh ranch. They have sent
for a government trapper with
his dogs since their own
efforts to trap or poison it
have been unsuccessful. On
the summit a western yellow-
bellied racer was taken and
lower down in a ravine
a sceloporus graciosus lizard
seen.
We then journeyed down to
Tomlinsons about 4 mi. SW of
Coyote Peak caught a gopher
snake in road & shot a California
Jay. For details of interview with
Mrs Tomlinson see Dr Grinnells
notebook. The hired man
said there was 3 ft. of snow
on the level last winter and
drifts blocked the road for 6 weeks.
He mentioned a herd of elk near
the Redwood Highway that