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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