Field notes, v1360
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Hoffmeister 1939 Itinerary Snake R, 350 ft, 1 mi. N Burbank, Walla Walla Co., Wash. spot in the driftwood pile was about 20 feet from the water's edge. The weasel seemed to have two observations holes in the wood pile, and stuck its head and about 1/3 of its body from both of these at 2 different times. It blinked repeatedly as if the light made vision difficult and twitched and moved its nose as if trying to more exactly localize a scent. Set 4 small "0" steel traps where I saw the Mustela. July 22 Set traps at two localities last night both of which were north of the Columbia River and a short distance east of the mouth of the Snake River. One locality, 2 mi. S.S.E. Burbank, 350 ft., was about an 1/8 of a mile from the Columbia, and was the soft sand, sparsely covered with Artemisia and Purshia? of the dry stream bed. Set 29 traps here and caught 5 Dipodomys ordii (3?, 2?) and 5 Cerognathus parvus (1?, 4?). Continued to a locality farther from the Columbia, setting traps near the railroad right-of-way 100 yds. south of the town marked Hermoset on the topographic maps and listed here as 4 mi. E Burbank 500 ft. The country here consists of low rolling hills which slope off towards the river