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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.