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Chattin
1941
Itinerary
Jan. 7 (cont)
4 mi. S Gadsden, 120 ft, Yuma Co, Ariz.
2 Nestoma albipile. 1 Ondatra was caught in steel trap set in burrow along canal bank.
A line of 11 gopher traps was set out along canal bank and in alfalfa field. 10 Thomomy
were taken during latter part of the day
and skinned.
Jan. 8.
a.m. Gopher traps were taken up and reset
7 Thomomys were taken. Several more
gophers were taken during day. 3 steel sets
were made along canal bank and in
heavy brush along a drainage canal. In
the afternoon a line of 60 traps were
set on the mesa for Dipodomys.
Jan. 9.
a.m. Trap line (mouse traps) were picked up.
Catch consisted of 4 D. deserti and 2 D.
zerrisimic. 5 Thomomys were caught in
gopher sets. 1 Nestoma and 1 Ondatra were
taken in steel traps (the wood rat being
cought in an old muskrat burrow).
Jan. 10 - Skinned Ondatra trapped by Schley along
canal bank. Camp was moved to California
side of the river to Borrego Valley at
5 mi. N W Borrego P.O., 700 ft, San Diego Co, Calif.
60 traps were set out after dark on sandy
alluvial fan. Vegetation is of creosote brush,
and Fransenia dumosa with some scattered
Ochotillo and Cholla cactus. Trap line was