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Q. Chatter
Perognathus parvus
3400ft.
Crooked R! at mouth of Bear Creek, Crook Co., Oregon
June 29 caught 5 P. parvus in 50 traps in sandy soil covered with sagebrush,
also in higher rocky soil with sparse bunch grass cover.
Columbia R. 300 ft.; at mouth of Deschutes R. Wasco Co., Oregon
July 1 2 P. parvus caught on hillside covered
with dry cheat grass.
Maryhill, 200ft., Klickitat co., Wash
July 16 - 3 ? P. parvus caught along slopes
of a dry wash. Cheek pouch contents
of 1 composed of seeds of cheat grass.
July 18 Paterson, 250ft., Benton Co., Wash.
Caught 39P.parvus in 90 mouse traps
set in sand dunes near sagebrush.
Cheek pouches contained seeds of
cheat grass. Closed and open burrow
mouths very plentiful. Tail tracks
visible in sand are about H in.
long and about 1/8 in. wide
July 19 Block Island,250ft., Benton Co., Wash.
caught 13 P. parvus in 42 mouse
traps set 20 faces apart, in sagebrush
growing in sandy soil.
2mi. SW Irrigon, 300ft., Morrow Co., Oregon
July 20 caught 18 P. parvus in 63 mouse
traps set 20 faces apart.