Field notes, v1313
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Gulliver 1949 Glaucomys sabrinus -1- Aug 26 French Camp, 3100 ft. Humboldt Co., Calif. - Between 12:15 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. this morning, I kept hearing [illegible] scurrying up the cedar tree about my bed. It was the same sort of noises I heard on the night of August 23. I was first awakened by a metallic "tit-tit-tit-tit" - - - - at 12:15 a.m. The animal quickly scurried up the tree, "tit"ing as it went. I lost track of it and went back to sleep. At 1:15 a.m., a crash in the foliage on the lower part of the tree awakened me again, and again the sound of scurrying up the tree, with much "tit"ing. This time the animal was still noisy high in the tree, then a moments silence - and the chattering was resumed in the small Douglas Fir east of camp, about 200 feet from the cedar-tree. The chattering animal could be heard going from tree to tree - then about a few minutes later - a flurry of scurrying on the tree near my bed and chattering as the animal ran up the tree. Then it worked along the trees south of camp, returning to the big cedar, made at least one more trip across the 200 foot gap to the east, and return. Scurrying and chattering was heard quite