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Chattin, J.
1940
Itinerary
Aug 14 (cont'd)
2½mi. SE Chinook, 10ft., Pacific Co. Wash.
Oregoni, 2 Eutamias were shot in brush beneath
vine maple and Sitka spruce. 1♀ weasel was
cought in steel trap. Trap was scented p.m.
Aug.12 and part of weasel body was hung
above trap.
p.m. 40 mouse traps were set out along edge
of slough on Gile's ranch 1½mile NW Chinook
or at 1¼mi. N [illegible] Chinook, 10ft., Pacific Co. Wash.
Traps were set at edge of Xerophyllum and
in Carex and grass in burrows beneath
ground. A muskrat was caught by hand
at edge of small slough.
After supper at 6:00p.m.- trap line at basecamp
2½mi. SE Chinook was inspected. -1 Sorex
bendirii was taken in trap set in burrow
beneath Carex. Animal was caught by
tail and was alive and active.
Aug. 15
a.m. - Traps at 1¼mi. N Chinook taken up.
They contained 1 Sorex vagrans, 1 Microtus town-
sendii, and 1 Neurotrichus. Microtus was caught
at edge of water, Neurotrichus was caught in
eccavated burrow.
Traps at 2½mi. SE Chinook were inspected
and result. Mouse traps contained 1
Neurotrichus (caught at end of small rotted
log in damp humus soil), 1 Microtus townsendii
was caught in excavated burrow beneath