Field notes, v542
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Boulevard St 1941 Eutamias townsendii (Western Chipmunk) May 20 Russian Gulch State Park, 500 ft., Mendocino Co., Calif. 8:30 AM Where two large redwood logs lie at right angles to path and about 30 ft. apart amid luxuriant vegetation of rhododendron, Vaccinium, Labrador Tea, bracken, blackberry, we frightened two chipmunks. As we walked up the trail we saw their rears scurry down the logs, one to each log, block- fringed orange tails skiling stiffly behind. Trees scattered in vicinity include Pinus muricata, Pinus contorta var. Islanderi, and Cupressus pygmaea. May 21 Found a ♂ in trap set in burrow supposedly 7:30 AM Aplodontia. An open burrow about 4" in diameter, extending beneath an old burned stump. Rat-trap used baited with crushed walnut. We were just starting on hike thru pine barrens so we buried the chipmunk in shade of pygmy cypress and picked it up about 3:30 in the afternoon. Kept very well. May 22 Traps set along North Trail and along 2 logs atop hill north of camp mentioned May 20 yielded nothing but one woodrat. Traps, 5 in number, set along tops of redwood logs. May 23 Found a ♂ and a ♀ in the 2 rat-traps baited with 2:30 PM walnut set on two large redwood logs. One was not in the trap but in the vegetation by the side of the log, having been merely struck and killed by the trap.