Field notes, v560
Page 313
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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