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Noffuate
1939
Itinerary
July 7
Brooks Meadow, 4300 ft., 9 mi. ENE Mt. Hood, Oregon
Meadow, I shot a Junco oreganus ♀ with several eggs, all only 2 mm. in size. This was 1 of a pair I had seen several times previously along the edge of the meadow in the margin of the spruce,
etc., forest.
July 8
Set 28 traps along a small creek that runs through the meadow. It is chiefly lined with wire grass, canas, and a little sedge. There seemed to be abundant evidence of Microtus and Sorex along this small waterway. However, I got only 3 Peromyscus maniculatus (2♂, 1♀) and 1 Zapus ♂. One trap set in the cabin caught a Peromyscus maniculatus ♀. I also set 8 rat traps baited with prunes and fresh bird meat in a forest of fir, Pseudotsuga, and lodgepole nearby. I only caught 1 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂ in those. Later, I shot a young Entamizotus coensdii.
About 7:30 to the southward far across the meadow and up a wooded slope we could hear several Canis latrans howling for a short time.
At this camp, we have taken the following mammals:
Scapanus orarius
Sorex vagrans