Field notes, v567
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Cogswell 1949 1 Eutamias townsendi Aug. 10 2:35 p.m. Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. - (1 mi SSE of camp) The noise of the shot with which I collected a Tamiasciurus hudsonicus [see account of that species for description of area] set about 5 chipmunks to chirping. One of them was on the more open bank about 10 feet off the ditch of the road and was collected ( ). The others were well back in the shrub thicket or perhaps, even up on the slope just above. Others have been heard in similar habitat for the last 1/4 mile or so along this road. Aug. 18 7:00 a.m. I shot one just within the border of a thicket of Rubus parviflorus, R. vitifolius, & R. spectabilis which is backed by alder & willow trees & fronts on a pasture about 1/3 mile south of camp. This one and about four other chipmunks had been startled calling by my shot at a yellow throat 10 min. before (see species account of Geothlypis trichas) 8:55 a.m. about 1.1 mi. S. & 4 mi. W. of our camp the west side of the canyon of Maple Creek, in the burned over area (see Journal), has some tractor roadways built up it in terraces for 200 ft. or more above the canyon bottom. I walked up one of these to take a picture & chipmunks started scolding me all around. One of them was shot at the edge of the dirt slide below the roadway, alt. Jude about 100 ft.