Field notes, v1362
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Hooper, 1938 Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. Mar. 7, Mangarita is a station on the electric railway (Son. Pac.) which runs from San Jose to San Rafael and lies on the west side of Richardson Bay. Widow Reed Cr. empties into the marshes on which it lies. Here salt marsh, Mangarita, Richardson Bay, Marin Co., Calif. I set out 14 mouse traps in low Salicornia and rushes; traps set about 8 ft. apart and about 25 ft. from automobile trestle over the marshes. At the next morning I found: 1 Microtus, 2 Reethrodontomys and 2 Peromyscus. The second locality trapped (salt marsh, 2 mi. ESE Costa Madera) was on the marshes bordering S.F. Bay proper and at the south end of the region about the mouth of Costa Madera Cr. The locality is adjacent to the high, non-marsh land at the north end of Tiburon Peninsula. Here where I trapped the grassy hillsides bound the salt marshes - separated only by the roadway. I put out 31 traps in sparse Salicornia and in rushes and some wild oat (little, along the road) Found Sun. AM: 1 Peromyscus, 1 Microtus, and 6 Reithrodontomys. Microtus runs