Field notes: Catalogue #404-530, journal, and species accounts, v4484
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"moose Eutamias meridianus meridianus July 29, 1929. A single individual, an adult male, was taken at a large outcropping of granite boulders on the south facing slope at Bear Valley Dam, 3700 ft. San Bernardino Mtn., San Bernardino Co. Calif. July 30, 1929 A second individual, an adult male, taken at the end of a log under a manzanita bush on the south facing slope at Bear Valley Dam 7000 ft. San Bernardino Mtn., San Bernardino Co. Calif. Oct. 22, 1929 One Meriian chipmunk was seen scampering up through the rocks, on the north facing slope of the Little San Ber- nardino Mtn., at the desert's edge, 23 mi. N.E. of Whitewater Station, Riverside Co. California at 4700 ft.? The slope was mainly covered with Pinyon and Juniper trees, with cat-claw and scrub oak in the wash bottoms. This individual was shot, and pieces of pinyon nuts were found in its cheek pouches. The very dark winter pelage covered the body, and the usual bright summer markings about the forepart indistinct. Before other individual was seen, late in the afternoon, as the majority of these chipmunks had presumably retired to their winter quarters, well supplied with nuts, or other seeds of desert plants.