Field notes, v1360
Page 177
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Hoffmeister 1939 Itinerary Glade Cr., 250 ft. ½ mi. N Columbia R., Benton Co., Wash. Neotoma cinerea and three woodrats here had taken advantage of driftwood and brush around the base of willows near the creek bed and used this as a nest, very similar to those of Neotoma fuscipes, where these bred near the base of trees. Nests of cinerea here were also seen around fallen logs where brush had accumulated. In this region along the creek there is abundant wild clover, willow, rushes, Russian thistle, nettles, sedges, and cheat grass and Artemisia along the bank. Caught 2 Neotoma cinerea (♂ adults) and 3 Reithrodontomys megalotis (♀♀), 2 Mus musculus (1♂ 1♀), 2 Peromyscus maniculatus (1♂, 1♀), 1 Perognathus parvus (1♂, 1♀). The Perognathus were caught along the drier bank. There are no buildings within miles of this creek apparently, yet Mus seems to be well established here as others were caught by Teris. This afternoon some of the ranch hands, whose name I do not know, brought in a yellow- bellied racn, which they caught on a ranch 4 miles east of Paterson. July 20 2½ mi. SW Drigon, 300 ft., Morrow Co., Oregon Last night, Johnson, Teris, Chantin, and myself, ferried across the Columbia at