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Latfield-1934
Lap Ranch, Colorado R., 1 1/2 mi. - XE
Searchlight, 500+ ft., Clark Co., Nev.
318.
January 20, 1934.
and that the specimens obtained were
exceptional.
Took all traps in.
Went hunting in afternoon with
Fitch. I shot a lutescent warbler and
Fitch shot a pipit. Saw 2 red-tailed
hawks, a Cooper or sharp-shinned hawk,
a cactus wood pecker, a red-naped sap-
sucker, a flicker, ruby-crowned kinglet?
Put out 100 traps on mesa tonight.
Found a badger burrow near end of
traps line. Found feces at entrance.
January 21, 1934
Caught in traps -
Nothing-
Now I am more certain that either
Perognathus formosus is hibernating or
some disease has killed off most in-
dividuals. Fitch had 50 traps out
along the base of the mesa, and 100
traps on top of the mesa, and caught
one wood-rat, so for 250 traps, the
sum total of the catch was one wood-rat,
rather poor trapping. There were plenty
of small holes, and some about the size