Field notes, v1360
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Jeffreister 1941 Itinerary Aug 9 (cont.) 5mi NNE Pt. Reyes Lighthouse Marin Co., Cal. Also saw 1 Lepus californicus and 1 Sylviagus trachmani. I also caught a Thomomys bottae right at camp. At about 8:30 a.m., the gopher stuck its head out of a hole, & proceeded to gradual expose more at intervals, until on several occasions its entire body protruded above ground. Set 2 traps & caught the ♀ (with mammae well-developed) by 10:30 a.m. Was impressed with the rapidity with which the animals, particularly the shrews "slip" in this cool climate. The S. thombridgeii, put up first, was already slipping. Broke camp about 1 p.m., stopping at Murphy's Ranch, about 4½ mi. W of Inverness, & inspected habitat & burrows where Henderson, Benson, & John Chutter had taken their leave, Aplodontia. Reached Berkeley about 5 p.m. via San Francisco. Sept. 14 Waddell Cr., ½ mi. below PRe; 100', 4mi. E & 1mi. N Alto Nuevo Pt., Santa Cruz Co., Cal. Rode to this locality with members of the Grinnell Naturalist Society. Set out about 25 mouse traps and 8 rat traps last night. The above locality is on the Rancho del Oso, estate of Theodore Hoover. I set the 8 rat traps around large & small wood-rat nests but caught nothing. I set the mouse traps along the northwest side of main Waddell Creek. The majority of traps where set among poison oak,