Field notes taken for Zoology S125, v547
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Brode 1934 July 6 continued One trap contained a woodrat; two had Peromyscus crinitus in them. Got no kangaroo rats. Had only seven traps out one was sprung and a rat trap was still set but empty I bait. Before breakfast I went with Hall to the farm Mason Valley 6 mi., S Yerington, 4500 ft., W. Walker R., Lyon Co., Nevada where we had placed traps the night before. In run ways I found two Reithrodontomys megalotis in traps. Black birds, meadowlarks, marshland yellow-throat, and marsh wrens were abundant. Two terns flew over the pond. There were many signs of water birds about the margin of the ponds especially in the reeds, which was I shot a marsh wren, in the tall reeds. We noted many jackrabbits along the road. One ran a head of us for some distance the rabbit barely kept a head of the car going at a speed of 25 miles per hour. We saw a number of Sparrow hawks, prowning