Field notes, v1360
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Hoffmeister 1941 Itinerary Aug. 9 5 mi. NNE Point Reyes Lighthouse, Marin Co., Calif. Yesterday noon, I left in company with Seth Benson, Edwin Miller, and Lester Hendrickson for Point Reyes Lighthouse & the Grinnell Club field trip. Crossing the Richmond-San Rafael Ferry saw a Phocea phocaena in the Bay. Continued via San Rafael & Olema to Inverness & then to the Pt. Reyes Lighthouse. En route saw a ? Odocoileus hemionus with 2 fauns, California Quail, & other smaller birds along the road. At the Lighthouse, we met other members of the Grinnell Club, and all proceeded to the rocks below the lighthouse to view the Murre, California & Western Gulls, Brandt and Baird Cormorants, Brown Pelicans, Pigeon Guillemots & Ravens. There were about 75 sea lions on the close off-shore rocks. Returned to the above locality, which is a short way west of the main road, & about 1/8 mile from the ocean. Set 5 & museum special & [cut] with black walnut & 2 rat traps in 3 different gulleys that were grown with thick, high bunch grass, blackberry, other grasses, occasional fern, etc. Ran trap line at 5:50 a.m. Heavy mist fell during site. Caught: 1 Neotrichus gibbsi 1 Sorex townsendii 1 Zapus orarius 3 Peromyscus maniculatus 2 Reithrodontomyss megalotis Other animals caught in the same gulley in trap line run by S.B. Benson included Microtus californicus & Sorex vagrans. Also found a skeleton in trap previously set by Benson of what appeared to be Sorex pacificus.