Field notes, v574
Page 31
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J Crowley 141 Journal May 19 Russian Gulch State Park Mendocino Co. California. At 6:30 Viola and I collected our traps, finding 1 shrewmole, 2 small shrew, 1 bird, and 4 Peromyscus maniculatus. He had set 23 traps in the night before, cought 11, rod four sprung with mouse and the rest were empty and unsprung. The bird was found on the outer fringe of a thimbleberry thicket, about 15 yards from the creek, in dense growth which it had apparently fought against as it was killed. The trap had caught it across its tibias so its wings were free. Apparently flies were lying about and the nest material about was disarranged; the bird had struggled to fly away. Our shrewmole was found 2-3 feet off the road in a thick et (at outer fringe of i.e.) thimbleberry, fern and tall grass beneath an alder tree, and elderberry. The situation was very damp, about 10 yards from the stream. The moles were found in traps set near the road -- one on the underside of a large log. I caught a Zapusa much like our former one but the head had been eaten off so we didn't save the remains. Mrs Grinnell identified the bird as a Dusky.