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Gutt,
Blein
1974
Journal
To Mr. W. House Thief Springs, Kingston Range, San
Bernardino Co., California.
April 7
and complete tolerance by the female. As a
result, I am assuming that the former is an
offspring of the latter. The mounds were
situated in cover with sand and lettuce
and bladderash. Several of the females
immediately began eating leaves of
bladderash. We excavated three burrow
systems, but found neither seed nor leaf
coaches. All human complexes
seem to be located in the base of
Peach Thorn (Lycium cooperi) bushes --
not black sagebrush. Many of these
complexes seem to be used by other
rodents, either fox are dug by microps
or kitwells, but porcupines and pronghorns
use them extensively. I don't know whether
a burrow complex can be said to indicate
my particular species here - the relationship
between microps and the antelope
ground squirrel is unclear.
April 8
This morning we picked up traps from an
area west of the first night's trapping.
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