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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.