Field notes, v1362
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looper, 1935 4 mi. E. Bishop, Inyo Co., Calif. Aug. 18, After a few days stay in Yosemite Valley we left for Bishop, going via the Big Oak Flat Road and Tioga Pass and arriving in Bishop about 5 P.M., Aug. 16. On the way over here I noticed few mammals. Golden-mantled ground squirrels in the Canadian zone, Bellling ground squirrels, chiefly in the Hudsonian where blooming flowers indicate that the height of springtime has just been passed. Tahoe chipmunks in Canadian, alpine chipmunks in Hudsonian were all that were seen during our mid-day drive. Last night I set out twenty mouse traps along the sandy, sage and squaw-tha-covered sandy banks of the Owens river bottomlands. Kangaroo rat holes were abundant. This morning I found 3 D. leucogenys? and 4 P. m. lonoceriensis in my traps. All but two of the Peromyscus were preserved as study skins; the two white-footed mice were discarded. No D. merriami were obtained in this, a more sandy habitat than that at the locality 2 mi. E. Bishop. Perhaps the merriami