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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