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JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 
oakum 
puff balls 
coin, one dime 
newspaper clipping on prevention of 
forest fires 
coffee can cover 4 inches in diameter 
paraffin from jelly glass 
bread crusts 
bones 
meat scraps 
cantaloupe rind 
scone 
candles, 19 pieces 
potatoes, 4 
dried- apricots 
soap, several cakes 
lemons 
mushrooms 
beans 
peanuts 
banana 
sugar, 15 lumps 
Miss Cameron writes that the box containing the nest was removed, and a 
home-made box trap put in its place, but that the wood rat avoided the spring, 
and industriously set about collecting a quantity of materials for another home. 
— V/alter P. Taylor. 
A NOVEL NESTING PLACE OF THE RED-BACKED MOUSE 
On September 7, 1919, in Sunset Park, Mount Rainier, Washington, I stowed 
a dunnage bag containing clothes and miscellaneous articles beneath a thick 
conifer to keep off the wet. Two days later I had occasion to get into it. Reach- 
ing inside, I felt something clinging to my hand, and looking down, I was sur- 
prised to see a mother red-backed mouse {Evotomys gapperi saturatus) with 
one young one clinging to one of her teats, and another but just let loose. On 
investigating further two more young were found. The mother had evidently 
regarded my dunnage bag as an exceptionally dry log with a wonderfully cosy 
interior, and had given birth to her four young there. It is of interest that we 
found red-backed mice breeding in Mount Rainier National Park from early in 
July until the middle of September. — Walter P. Taylor. 
THE RANGE OF THE HOARY MARMOT IN MONTANA 
The Montana hoary marmot {Marmota caligata nivaria) , according to Howell, 
occurs in two comparatively small areas, one in northwestern Montana, covering 
approximately what is now the Glacier National Park, and the other in Idaho, in 
portions of the Bitterroot and Salmon River Mountains (North American Fauna, 
No. 37. Revision of the American Marmots, pp. 66 and 67). I find that I have 
a few observations, made in Montana several years ago, that increase this range 
somewhat. While I paid no great attention to mammals at that time, and did 
not collect specimens, such an animal as the hoary marmot is so conspicuous, 
so easily observed and so unmistakable that there can hardly be doubt as to the 
species, though the subspecies, of course, might be in question. 
On September 8, 1909, while crossing the continental divide at a point in Deer 
Lodge County, Montana, I observed two of these animals, and heard their shrill 
whistled call. I was in the company of Mr. J. S. Baird of the Forest Service at 
the time. Neither of us had ever seen such an animal before, or heard of one. 
When we described it to rangers of the Deerlodge National Forest, none of them 
knew it, which leads me to believe that it cannot be common in that part of the 
