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Murray
1948
59
Journal
May 10 Pozo Grande, 25°46'N, 112°02'W, Baja California
bats remained quite a while after dark,
however. Several times a flock of ducks
tried to land but were frightened away.
We believed them to be baldpates. Grant
cought a Bufo punctatus.
The people here say that they have seen
a burrowing lizard which might easily
be Bipes. Their description was quite
confused.
May 11 24.3 mi SE El Refugio, 100±ft., 24°33'N, 111°35'W, Baja Calif.
Traveled today through more of the
same country except that the sand was
yellowish. There were also some stunted
mesquites, and shortly the sprawling
cactus called chinola appeared infrequently.
We crossed the broad river bed at Santa
Domingo, and thereafter found more of
a silty, hard packed sand with many
bare dried mud flats, both small and
large. Saw several caracaras perched
on cardons, but nothing else living but
cultures and ravens on this desolate
plain.
The road has been quite good except for
some sandy places - has been worked
on a little. Made our camp in the
middle of nowhere, 24 miles past Rancho