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J.G. Hall
1954
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June 7 Roberts Ranch, 8200 ft., White Mts., Inyo Co., California
flurry of snow from down canyon.
Overcast rest of day and a much
warmer night than previous one. Poor willis and saw-whet
June 8 owls out in evening. After bfast
checked traps & found 18 Peromysus
and 1 microtus in the first string of
19 traps; 3 Peromysus in second
string of 19. 6:30 A.M. started hunt-
ing on W side of pond & around the
banks of willows & up into a
stand of birch close by. Seen: warbling
vireo, song sparrow, white-crowned
sparrow, fox sparrow, Bewee, Emp.
idonax, Tolmie warbler, chickadee,
violet-green swallow. Shot the last
3 species. Also saw green-tailed tow-
hee and robin. There were snow
flurries in afternoon but they cleared
by evening. Cold night. At dusk I
shot a young saw-whet owl. Re
June 9 set traps, 19 on rocky slope. After bfast
checked traps to find 29 mice
out of 38 traps. Many were half eaten.
1 was microtus, 1 P. truei, 1 P. crin-
itus, the rest P. maniculatus.
At 6 I hunted down road past