Field notes: Along California and Nevada boundary, v508
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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.