Field notes, v545
Page 15
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L.M. Boyers 1932 \n½ mi. E., Misamonte 3500 ft., Fresno Co., Colby, December 16, 1932 I saw several wood rat nests, but nothing that looked very fresh. Deer tracks, brush rabbit tracks, fox tracks, and coyote tracks were exceedingly common. On the last part of the trip I set out 35 mouse traps. The ground is covered in its protected spots with from two to four inches of snow, that supposedly fell three or four days ago. December 17, 1932 Up at six thirty, breakfast, and out on the trap line, but it rained during the night and many were sprung and the others had nothing in them. A large part of the snow was melted by the rains. No new birds were seen or heard except a Colaptes cafer, I heard and several Regulus caleudula, one of which I shot. After hunting variously for brush rabbits for about two hours I returned to camp and shot a Pipilo furcatus on the way. I put up one bird and then got lunch, after which I spent until 4 o'clock