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J Crowley
1941
Journal
May 26 Russian Gulch State Park, Mendocino Co., Calif.
Of 24 traps set on preceding night, 6 mouse traps had catches, 9 were spring, 3 of the rest which traps had catches. The mouse traps had been set along the margins of a meadow 200 ft elevation, by conifers, alders and blackberry bushes, had a live Zapus which I killed. The other traps were set along an old road which was densely overgrown with Thimbleberry and Black- berry, grass and alder trees. Three traps had 2 shrews - Sorex pacificus, and vagrans; 2 Perognacus maculatus - (Proto Memmle's?), / of, / g. I had set 4 rat traps.
One of them - at just beside the old road beneath & Douglas fir - contained the remains of a Dusky footed Woodrat - just the fur and parts of the skin - postery track. E evidently some hungry or small animal had gotten to our traps before we did. The other 2 rat traps which had catches contained 2 g wood rats - / mature, / immature; The immature was found 20 feet from the rest near an alder tree. Its abdomen has been slightly gnawed at - possibly by the same or the same sort of animal