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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.