Field notes, v1360
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Hoffmeister 1942 Itinerary Walker Cr., 4 mi SW Olancho, Inyo Co, Calif. N.fureipes) caught nothing. 10 traps set for chipmunks up the Walker Cr. canyon caught 2 P.boylii and 3 traps in the grass along the creek, beneath willows and alders caught nothing. 1 set of traps caught a Thomomys. I shot a Crotaphytus wislizenii about 2:30 p.m. and caught an Aspidophorus. As I grabbed for the whip-tail, it dove into Walker Cr. and came out on opposite at the same spot, without being washed down stream. Incidentally, the current is very swift here. About 8:30 p.m., when I was setting gopher traps on the flat east of Walker Cr., the bats were flying up Walker Creek in considerable numbers. In a 1 minute interval I counted 6 individuals. Most of them appeared to be Myotis, but some where too large to be this genus. This a.m. I saw a grey squirrel, Sciurus griseus, running along the road about 200 ft. from camp. This spot was approx. right at the junction of Walker & Falls creeks. When I returned to get my gun, it had disappeared & search for it was futile. Shot a Stellar Jay at 3 p.m. up Walker Cr. Canyon at 4 8 mi. S junction of the 2 creeks. There was a pair of these jays feeding in the oaks. On approach they flew to the top of the canyon rim, but then feed in the oak down to near the canyon bottom, where I shot the 2 May 21 Set 55 traps north of Falls Creek on the first slope above the continuous apron leading off into Owens Fall. This was in an