Field notes, v1360
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Hoffmeister 1942 Itinerary June 23 8mi.W 1mi.N Benton, 7500 ft., Mono Co., Calif. I walked down the road about 2 1/2 miles last night to the beginning of the pisona to set 55 mouse traps and 1 gopher trap. Caught 2 Perognathus parvus, 1 Dipodomys panamintinus, 1 Thomomys talpoides, 1 Eutamias minimus, and 14 Peromyscus maniculatus. During the morning's hunt, I shot a young Eutamias minimus (not saved), and eutamias quadrivittatus (?), no. 882, from a limb of a dead pisona, 15 feet above the ground. I heard a family group of California jays moving through the pisona but was only able to collect one immature bird. Also shot a White-breasted Nuthatch, Hairy Woodpecker (prepared by Pitelka), and a Flicker. At this locality the pisonas become rather thick, but it is near the area where they border the Jeffrey pines. There are no junipers in the immediate vicinity. Gopher traps left set in the meadow where the Citellus beldingi and Mustela frenata were seen, designated here as 9mi.W Benton, caught 1 Thomomys talpoides (badly eaten and slipping around the runpa; no. 885) and 1 Citellus beldingi, which was using an "old" gopher burrow as a runway (saved as skull only, no. 886). June 24 Set 60 traps along the upper parts of the "left fork" of the "Wet Fork" and in a large, un-grazed meadow, designated as E Base Glass Mtn., 9mi.W 1mi.S Benton, 9000 ft. Traps were set in grassy situations along the creek, in willow thickets, beneath fallen logs, but in various, nearly similar situations, with the hopes of catching