Field notes, v1360
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Hoffmeister 1939 Zapus July 8 Brooks Meadow, 4300 ft., 9 mi. ENE Mt. Hood, Hood R. Co., Oregon Other members of the party have collected several of this genus, but although I have set traps now for 3 nights in what I consider appropriate habitat, I have been unable to collect any of these mice until this morning when I found one caught by the tail (still alive) in my traps along the small stream of water through the meadow. July 11 Cayuse Meadow, 3800 ft., 3 1/2 mi. SW Steamboat Mtn., Skamania Co., Wash. Set traps last night in this completely isolated small meadow, which is only part of elevated forming Cayuse Meadow. The meadow is about a mile walk from the nearest road. A small stream runs thru one corner of it. I caught 4 specimens in the tall mixed grasses (none of which I could identify) where it bordered the willow thickets of the edge. Two of the specimens were still alive & these 2 were firmly caught across the body, so I imagine they had only been caught a short time. There was no sun yet when I visited the traps, for the whole meadow was concealed in mist or a cloud. In measurements, these 4 specimens externally seem fairly similar to the one specimen I caught at the above locality.