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- Synaptomys. July 24. 1939.
Ormidale Harbour, Campbell I. [Island]
Today I observed abundant small mouse runs +
cutting in long grass + in the sphagnum moss
along the edge of a Salt lagoon. I set one [word crossed out] some traps
and succeeded in catching a small mouse which
I tentatively identify as a Synaptomys. These
runs are so small that one can hardly insert
ones index finger into them without disturbing
the sides, they apparently form avenues from
the sphagnum bogs + banks to the lush grass
upon which they seem to feed. Most of the
cuttings in the bogs were of those grasses.
having been carried there by the mice. Mr
[Thomas T.] McCabe also caught one of these mice on the opposite
side of the harbor.
Nekis [Neekus] River, Don peninsula. Aug [August] 2. - 3. 1939.
I found a small colony of Synaptomys
about 50 feet from the salt water among
fallen logs + boulders under big spaces.
These logs + rocks were covered by a large [word crossed out]
thick coat of sphagnum moss + in this
moss these little mice made their runway.
The runways also ran up a fallen root
of a tree which was covered by moss +
sedges. The synaps. [synaptomys] seemed to prefer
these coarse sedges to the finer grasses
which grew abundantly in a small
opening in the forest 15 or 20 feet away
by having 20 traps set tonight I
succeeded in catching one synap. [synaptomys]
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