. Results of a biological survey of mount Shasta, California. FKt. :!1.— Winter eailli plii^s uf j)iickit Via. :;2. - :\Iiiimm1 liy pocket Koiilier. (Pliotogiiiidiid l)y Osgood,) and on tlic nurtli side tlicy \vcr< a ban (hint nearly np to I imhcrlinc. bothon the main jnak and (Mi Shastina. OCT., 1899.] MAMMALS. 97 At Wagon Camp, aiul tbeiice eastward to Pantlier (Jieek, the wholecountry is honeycombed with tlieir subterranean passages. While wewere at Wagon Camp they were unmitigated pests, throwing up littlemounds of fresh earth in our midst every day and keejiing the
. Results of a biological survey of mount Shasta, California. FKt. :!1.— Winter eailli plii^s uf j)iickit Via. :;2. - :\Iiiimm1 liy pocket Koiilier. (Pliotogiiiidiid l)y Osgood,) and on tlic nurtli side tlicy \vcr< a ban (hint nearly np to I imhcrlinc. bothon the main jnak and (Mi Shastina. OCT., 1899.] MAMMALS. 97 At Wagon Camp, aiul tbeiice eastward to Pantlier (Jieek, the wholecountry is honeycombed with tlieir subterranean passages. While wewere at Wagon Camp they were unmitigated pests, throwing up littlemounds of fresh earth in our midst every day and keejiing the grounddisturbed the whole time, so tliat it was impossil)le to walk in anydirection outside of the marsh without stirring up a cloud of dust. Ishot several in cam^) in the daytime, as they poked their heads out oftheir burrows, pushing little loads of dirt before them. They throwout the earth so rapidly that it is difficult to observe the process accu-rately. One appeared to empty it from his pouches, but I shot him inthe act and found his jiouches free from dirt and full of cut pieces ofroots. On the highe
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