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19/3
W. Grinnell
Guerneville, Sonoma Co.
2
morning. Yesterday I heard the
call of the California woodpecker, if
I am not mistaken.
I have seen several woodrats
nests built upon redwood
stumps. Chipmunks (Eutamias
hindsii) are abundant. On the
sunnier hillsides gopher
and mole workings are num-
erous, as well as in the garden
of the resort. Trapping in
the garden has brought in a
mole and a gopher. The mole
was caught in a trap set under
a mound of fresh earth, which
looked like a gopher's working.
A line of traps set along
the fence at the edge of the pasture
has yielded one Peromyscus boylei,
gopher ♀ 101.
mole ♀ 102.
June 11.
Bats are flying every evening.
Only two sorts have been so
far observed, a long-winged
kind, two examples of which may
be seen every evening flying