Field notes, v1360
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Hoffmeister 1939 Itinerary Maryhill, 200 ft., Klickitat Co., Wash. spend about 1 3/4 hours in an attempt to collect Ochotona. The party was successful in getting 5 in this time. I got one male but in so doing, I completely destroyed his head by the blast of the gun. This specimen was saved however. The immediate rock slide here near the road covers about 5 acres, and within this area, many colonies additional to those collected could be heard. I saw a few places beneath rocks where there was cony feces. Bunch grass showed definite evidence of being eaten apparently by these animals, the main stems being cut high up (apparently eaten only when young) and the side stems eaten at a lesser height from the ground. Scattered through the rock slides were patches of Acer sp? which seemed to be used by these animals dos, as they could be heard (and one was collected) from these patches. Drove on to White Salmon for supplies, and then continued along the Washington side of the Columbia river up to Maryhill, where we are now encamped along the stream near the Maryhill ferry landing. Collected a Brewer Blackbird and also prepared a Flicker collected by