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"Hoffmiste
1939
July 6 Brooks Meadow, 4300ft, 9mi ENE Mt Hood, Hood R Co., Oregon Gazard house (cabin) in which we are encamped and this morning caught a calls (Citelles lateralis ?). Also walked a short ways along the road through the forest leading to Mill Creek Butte and shot a Eutamias townsendii 3 and Lemurus douglasii 3. Later this afternoon I walked along the old road leading northeast towards The Dalles, and shot 3 Eutamias townsendii (2?, 1?). In the evening, saw 3 bats flying high above the trees surrounding the meadows, and 2 of these were collected, 1 by Chatin, and 1 by Johnson & myself. They were Lasionycteris noctivagans.
July 7 Set out 39 traps last night in the tallest grass on the southeastern side of the meadows. The night was cold and the grass was covered with plenty of white frost (as well as the traps). I caught 6 Peromyscus maniculatus (3?, 3?). Later in the morning, I shot a Canada Jay, Perisoreus obscurus.
In the afternoon, examined some burrows of Aplodontia rufa, which are rather numerous at the lower end of the meadows where the drainage system of the meadows come together. On the way up through the