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Coquell
1949
Eutamias sonomae
2
Red Mt, 5300 ft., 14 mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co., Cal.
Sep.6 (cont) dense brush as they do when alarmed. I
collected one from top of a 3 ft. high branch of a
fallen log in midst of a dense thicket of Ceanothus
cuneatus on a S-facing slope with a few scattered
Pines (jeffreyi x ponderosa). 3+ other chipmunks,
scolding me with similar calls, ran into the
brush from near the log. 2 of them came up on
a rock to scold me as I started writing this.
Sep.8
(9:10am)
S. Dubabella Mt., 5600 ft., 12+ mi S Hayfork, Trinity
Co. Cal. along the trail in the area of low shrubs
just above the upper border of white fir -- Jeffrey
pine forest on a N-facing slope I [illegible] 3 species of
chipmunks scolding me at once. although I
cannot see this species, its extremely high pitched
call, as described on Sep 3-4, is in sharp contrast
to those of E. amoenus & E. townsendi (which see).
This call is given in separate series of 8-12
staccato notes. Mellow "pook" notes heard
also, but which species gave them I do not know
Sep.9
(2 mi. N by W) Red Mt., 5300 ft., 14+ mi. S Hayfork, Trinity Co. Cal.
at 10:30 a.m., while I was writing notes on the Puffing
owl observation, in an area of open Jeffrey Pine, In-
cense cedar, and a few tawny oaks near an opening
in the forest bordered by Ceanothus cordulatus. several
of these chipmunks became active in the brush. They
had been silent since soon after my shot at the owl, but
soon one came up slope along a fallen cedar log just
within the forest & sat on a branch of it calling a series