Field notes, v1502
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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