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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