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This species was first described by True (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 
13, p. 303, 1890) from a specimen found dead on a road near Marsh- 
field, Coos County, Oregon. The present range of the species has not 
been determined but it has been found over a large part of Curry County; 
near Eugene, Lane County; at Bonneville, Multnomah County; near 
Forest Grove in Washington County; and nests possibly of this species 
at Nehalem in Tillamook County. From their habits it is no wonder 
the earlier collectors failed to find more of them. How many collectors 
look in the tree tops for mice? 
Phenacomys albipes 
This mouse was first described by C. Hart Merriam (Proc. Biol. 
Soc. Wash., vol. 14, pp. 125-126, July 19, 1901) from a specimen col- 
lected in the red-woods forest near Areata, Humboldt County, Cali- 
fornia, by Walter K. Fisher during 1899. From that time until May, 
1914, Fisher’s specimen remained unique. On May 18, 1914, while 
running a line of oat-meal baited traps near Vida, Lane County, Oregon, 
I took a fine adult male of P. albipes in a wooden mouse trap set among; 
mossy stones along a small stream that fiows through a heavy forest' 
of Douglas fir (See Oregon Sportsman, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 37). The forest 
floor was well covered with sword fern, moss, and a tangle of vine maple. 
Considerable trapping was done in the same locality but no more speci- 
mens were taken, and nothing more learned of the habits of this species. 
The following month Mr. Vernon Bailey visited Oregon and saw the 
specimen I had taken. In company with L. J. Goldman, A. C. Shelton 
and M. E. Peck, all experienced collectors, Mr. Bailey went to Vida 
and trapped that section throughly, but without success as far as 
P. albipes was concerned. During that season the entire McKenzie 
River region was well worked by members of the Biological Survey 
and representatives of the Oregon Fish and Game Commission without 
locating more of the species. Although considerable collecting was 
carried on west of the Cascades in Oregon during 1915 and 1916 we 
learned no more of the species until 1917. During September of that 
year, in company with my wife and several friends I went to Netarts 
Bay in Tillamook County, Oregon for a few days’ vacation. My for- 
mer experience in that locality showed me that the possibilities were 
excellent for small mammals so I put eight old mouse traps in my outfit 
before starting. A day or two after arriving at the beach I set the 
traps in a salmonberry thicket back of camp. I expected to catch 
