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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,