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Dullon
1949
journal
-129-
Aug 14 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif.
The stream flows towards WSW—azimuth
120°.
Aug 15—same locality—visited my trap line
this morning. On the way to it saw
Bush-tits in addition to the usual
birds along the stream border on Maple
Creek. Heard a Chipmunk on the edge
of the Spruce Forest E of Camp. It was
scolding but it would not show itself.
Caught 2 Zapus and 1 Sorex pacificus
and 1 Song Sparrow in my trap line.
Took all 18 up. Photographed the deep
spruce forest and the [illegible]
pool. Went on to the E end of the
[illegible]—found a small trickling
stream just in the brush—collected one
Rana aurora. Then returned to camp to skin
and put up specimens. About 3 pm. set out
for the marsh—took 1 Savannah Sparrow
[in the pasture]
just below the Maple Creek Bridge, then
a 2nd one in the [illegible] along the bank
of the first bend of the creek. Worked on
down the creek to where a dry
channel cuts across—saw and fired
upon a mink there—I believe I
wounded it but it escaped into the
dense Scirpus. Leaving there I worked