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Bartholomew
1941
Itinerary
July 26 middle cr., 8000 ft, White Mts., Esmeralda Co., Nevada
We left our camp 6 mi. N & Virginia city at 2:00 pm
and drove through Carson City and Yerington to 2 mi.
& Hawthorne, Mineral Co., Nevada, 4300 feet where we
stopped just at dark and put out our traps after dark.
Our camp was in the midst of a flat sandy area
on which the only vegetation was scattered thorn
brushes. I put out 50 traps and caught 3 Perognathus
longimembris (2♀ and 1♂). The small number of animals
caught was no doubt due to the rain which fell
intermittently all night long and quit shortly before dawn.
All three of my animals were soaking wet. At 8:00 a.m.
we left camp and drove to Ailemont where we turned east
and drove up into the White Mountains. We arrived
at our camp at about 10:30 p. a. m.
July 27 I set out 70 traps, thirty around the edges of a
marshy meadow covered with willows, grass, and wild
sedge, Situla fruticellla
rose, 10 in a grove of Populus trichocarpa and the
rest in mixed sage and pimon on a rocky slope.
A creek runs past the meadow and the P. trichocarpa.
I caught 11 ♀ and 10 ♂ Peromyscus maniculatus, one Thompsen
truei ♀ (immature), and one pocket gopher. After breakfast
I walked about three miles east of camp up to an
altitude of about 9000 feet looking for deer and Eutamias
quadrimaculus, neither of which I found, but I shot one
Eutamias minimus. We broke camp at about 1:00 pm
and drove over to the old Davis Ranch to look for deer
but decided there were none and so headed for Tonopah.