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P.A.Kelly
1983
Journal
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of boulders near the field station. Rich also
set some bill-traps (Macabees) for gophers.
About 10 pm we went to check all our traps.
I caught 2 Sores vagrans and an adult (o)
and jw. (?) Microtus montanus in my first
line, but nothing in the line there' the trees
Sat., Sept. 10 At 8 am. we again checked, but lifted our
trap lines. I had another adult (?) montanus
and a jw. (?) Peromyscus maniculatus in
line 1, but again nothing in my 2nd line.
Irene also got a bushy-tailed woodrat
in the rockpiles.
Back at the field station, we skinned
and stuffed some of our specimens, and
refrigerated and labelled the rest.
After lunch we drove to:
Sagebrush Desert, 16 Mi NE Chilcot, Plumas Co, CA (5200ft)
I paired up with Mike and we set 3 Goma
haws in the large rocks to the east of the
dirt track for woodrats. From the most
northerly clump of rocks we set a line
of 20 shermans (10 paces apart) eastwards
towards 1 beyond a single pine tree. We
also set another line of 23 Museum Specials
back to and along the rocks. The Sherm