Field notes, v1360
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Hoffmeister 1939 Itinerary JuninButtes, 4300 ft., 2½ mi.SW Steamboat mtn., Skamania Co., Wash. Caught 4 Zapus trinotatus (♂♀), 4 Peromyscus maniculatus (♂', ♀'), 1 Sorex obscurus ♀, 1 Bufo cinereus, and 1 Junco oreganus. I also collected 1 Rana last evening going down to Cayuse Meadows, and 1 this morning. July 12 Set 30 traps in the burnt-over & re-grown semi- meadow country around the base camp. This country consists of a sparse forestation of the previously mentioned conifers at an average height of about 30 feet together with short and previously grazed grasses and service berry. I caught 1 Zapus trinotatus ♀ and 3 Peromyscus maniculatus (1 ♂, 2 ♀). One of the Peromyscus (the ♂) was a juvenile. Last night there was no fog or low clouds & this A.M. was likewise was clear, which was in contrast to night before last when mist & clouds formed a thick blanket night & morning. However, the vegetation this morning was wet underfoot. Caught a Hyla in green coloration in the short-grazed grass. This afternoon, I set 6 rat traps, baited with oats, about 100 yds. north of camp. Within a half hour I had a Eutamias townsendii, and within 2 hours I had in addition in this specimen a Eutamias anoensus and 2 Citellus