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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