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Status: Indexed

Collector: Grinnell - 1925
Location: La Grulla, 7200 ft.
Date: Oct. 7
Page Number: 2574

6434 Gray Fox (female sign) 10 lbs. (by "handcuff" scales). 915x365x121x70.
Caught in a setting of one no. 0 newhouse trap under
a cascara bush on the side of "Microtus" gorge. Bait,
bird and mouse bodies. I have seen a number of
fox foot-prints in trails before the rain; also
a few of Coyote -- but curiously we have heard
no note of the latter. I have been trying for
Spilogale -- but not a smell! I doubt if Heller's
specimen came from up here; more likely it
came from an upper Sonoran locality; this should
be looked into carefully, by checking dates against
localities in his [Elliot's] report.
Besides birds taken, I noted the following: Green-
backed Goldfinch(2, one of which was giving the food-
call of a juvenile; Sharp-shinned Hawk (seen
twice); Anna Hummer (1); Rufous Hummer (1);
Crossbill (unmistakable notes heard in the distance);
Pinyon Jay (a noisy troupe around again today);
California Jay (the first one I have seen appeared on
the brushy hillside back of camp near noon, was
"squeaked" [my jay call] into a nearer pine, but
stayed out of range).
6435 Mountain Chickadee (male sign) ad. 12.2g. Shot from small pine.
6436 Cabanis Woodpecker (female sign) 57g. Shot at cluster of cones 75 feet
up in pine, pecking out seeds.
6437 Merriam Chipmunk (male sign) 57.5g. 215x86x32.5x15.
Two Jeffrey pine seeds in each of the cheek-pouches.

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Nathani

The [] around "Elliot's" and "my jay call" are JG's. I see that Newhouse traps are still in production but I don't see a size 0. It is a leg or body-grip trap with one or two springs.