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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 9
Page Number: 2580

doubtless hardly covered with dirt as they go.
I suppose they find the insects in the leaf-mold under
the thickets here and there. Lamb and I both
have "modified" Macabee gofer (sic) traps set all the
time for the moles, but this species is so small
that an individual goes thru and thru (sic) a trap
without springing it, or if sprung, without nipping(?)
him.
7:00 p.m. -- Barometer = 23.20 inches Sky partly overcast,
but northwest wind blowing cold.
6466 Merriam Chipmunk (male sign) 56g. 226x98x34x14. Under boulder.
6467 Merriam Chipmunk (male sign) 55.4g. 217x90x33x16. Under manzanita.
Oct. 10
6468 Thomomys (female sign) 88g. 196x71x29.5x4. In wet sand.
6469 Thomomys (male sign) 129 g. 225x80x32x4 In dry "second(?)bottom".
Discarded: 1 Peromyscus maniculatus (male sign), under edge of boulder
by cascara thicket; P. truei, 1 (male sign), 1 (female sign);by cascara bushes and
boulders; P. boylii (male sign), by manzanita, on dry upland.
6470 Audubon Warbler (female sign) im. 10.0g. Shot in willow by stream.
6471 Pigmy Nuthatch (male sign)ad. 10.5g. Shot on ground under pine.
6472 Slender-billed Nuthatch (male sign) ad. 16.4g. Shot from high in pine.
6473 Townsend Junco (male sign) ad. 18.6g. Shot on top of boulder.
6474 White-crowned Sparrow (male sign) ad. 26.9g. Shot in willow by stream.
6475 Monterey Hermit Thrush (male sign) im. 21.8(?)g. Shot in cascara bush.
6476 Tanager (male sign) im. 25.3g. Shot in cascara bush under pine.
6477 Bluebird (male sign) ad. 27.0g. Shot from lower branch of pine.
6578 Spurred Towhee (female sign) ad. 36.4g. Shot in top of cascara bush.
6479 "Pinero" (female sign) ad. 91.4g. Shot from pine.

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Nathani

6467 and 6469 had the name dittoed. It appears that Macabee gopher traps are still being made.