Field notes, v1360
Page 175
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Hoffmeister 1939 Itinerary Paterson, 250 ft., Benton Co., Wash. was grown up with asparagus, alfalfa, and oats. These traps caught nothing. 10 traps set along the irrigation ditches between the pear tree rows, caught 1 Peromyscus maniculatus ♂, 1 Mus musculus ♀, and 1 Reithrodontomys megalotis ♂. 17 traps set along the edge of a small alfalfa patch caught 1 Reithrodontomys megalotis ♂ and 1 Neognathus parvus ♀. Additionally, I set 2 settings of gopher traps and caught 1 Thomomys talpoides ♀ and 4 rat traps caught nothing. Later in the day, I picked up a Scapiothus in the pear orchard, where it had burrowed a slight distance into the soft sand. July 19 Drove about 6 miles west from Paterson to Glade Cr., 250 ft., Benton Co., Wash. last night with Johnson and Lutz, were I set out 50 museum special traps and 13 rat traps. This locality is ½ mi. north of the Columbia river, and at this time of year is nothing more than a stagnant pool where Glade Creek has been dammed to hold water at this end, also here there are only a few pools supplied by a spring, altogether making only about 250 yards of creek at this time. There was abundant sign of