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Hooper,
1938
Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif.
Mar. 7,
were abundant. One was seen running
through the vegetation. About 1 mi. NW
of this locality in dense, high Salicornia
(~2 1/2 ft. high) along the railroad
tracks to Liberon Penins., I put out
44 mouse traps about 8 ft. apart.
Found Sunday: 3 Microtus, 2 Reithrodonys,
and 2 Mus. The latter 2 were discarded.
This locality = salt marsh, 1 mi. ESE
Corte Madera.
As a result of this trapping it is apparent:
(1) That Reithrodontomys raviventris occurs
north of S.F. Bay. (2) That its presence
here must be explained. (3) That its range
may extend on northward to that of
R. thalictes. (4) That R. raviventris
and R. megalotis occur together where
the grassy slopes meet Salicornia. (5)
That trapping must be done from
San Rafael northward to clear up
some of these matters.
The fact that R. raviventris doesn't occur
out of the Salicornia would seem to me
to indicate that it is a native kind
to this habitat which has spread here
from the south or that it has been intro-
duced into an unoccupied niche or displaced heterote.