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Marshall, 1939
General Comment
NE edge Alkali Lake, 4200 ft. Lake G., O.s. July 30.
Arid upper sonoran zone. Full
moon, clear, calm, warm weather.
Set traps in 25 yd. intervals
south from camp - all along the
edge of the dry lake-bed. Set
under bushes, in tall grass plots,
and in little bare trails thru the
humus under the clumps of
bushes. Very sandy soil
wind-rippled - pure white sand.
Many mammal burrows - always
creaking into them. Many little
holes where mammals digging.
Set 65 traps - along the
brush & grass plots at the
edge of the lake-bed, & 2
in island clumps of bushes
out in the lake bed (60 yds
from rest of vegetation)
After supper, whistled up
some poorwills - heard about
6 altogether - on this very
flat land. Called up one
& collected it as sat on sand
near some brushes, T #694. Heard
several Coyotes during this moonlit
night.