Field notes, Part 2, v488
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J.R. Alcorn 1940 Citellus townsendii mollis limi. SW Fallon, 4000 ft, Churchill Co., Nevada. June 20, 1940. Today in company with Laura E. Mills, we saw a Piute Ground Squirrel up in the tops of a buck brush tree. It was apparently feeding on the berries that it were ripening on this tree. Shot it and found that it was young and her stomach contained about ½ green vegetation and ½ Buck brush berries, by volume. It was 10 feet high when shot and was out on the amount the small branches of the tree. Its stomach was full and apparently all the berry was eaten because the seeds & skin of these berries were found in the stomach.