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Chatting
1940
Catalogue
18½ mi. NW Portland 1300 ft. Washington Co. Oregon
at distances of 3-10 yds. apart. Traps were
set in small grassy spaces and beneath
bushes and fallen logs and driftwood.
Vegetation present along the trap line was
made up of Bracken, tangles of black-
berry, black raspberry, thimbleberry bushes.
Young alders 8-18 ft. high, Carex sp?
and some grasses are also present. White
Everlasting, Clarkia and Canadian thistles
add to the tangle of vegetation.
9 #4 jump traps were set in runs or
burrow mouths of Aplodontia beneath
fallen and rotten logs on NE facing
slope of hill in fairly heavy stand of
Douglas fir. 6 Traps were also set by W.C.R.
and when I returned 2 hrs. later
at 3 p.m. 1 Aplodontia was caught and
1 other trap was sprung. This contained
some fur and possibly was sprung by
feelly of the animal and was not held
by trap. Traps are large enough since the
A caught was held securely. 1 mole
trap was set near camp in mole run
which appeared fairly fresh (possibly not
more than 3-4 days old). Between 8:05 p.m.
and 8:30 p.m. shot 1 Lasionycteris and 1 Myotis.
Bats were observed flying only between