Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Hooper
Reithrodontomys halicoetes
1 mi. W Avon (salt marsh), Contra
Costa Co., Calif.
Feb. 28, 1937
Traps baited with oatmeal and placed
in Microtus runways yielded at least
4 R. halicoetes. They were found
in the same immediate area with
R. megalotis. On at least one instance
one trap contained a megalotis and
the next trap, about ten paces away,
held a halicoetes. As I look at the
skins of harvest mice all collected in
the same marsh and on the same trap
line, it seems to me that 4 are R.
megalotis and 4 R. halicoetes. On the
same line were caught Mus musculus,
Sorex sp? and Microtus californicus.
St. Vincent, salt marsh, 3 mi. N San Rafael,
Marin Co.
May 25,
in 58 traps
Caught 1, set in runways in Salicornia.
This one was caught where the pickle
weed was thick and the ground
moist. All but about 3 of the other
traps were set where one of the other
of the above "factors" was not satis-
fied.