Field notes, v1502
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Monday 1948 67 Journal May 16 Triunfo, 1700 ft., Baja California Along camp runs a sandy wash which is very thickly grown in most places with ramajo ceniza and some other sandy habitat plants. Mesquites are scattered throughout. All the countryside is heavily overgrazed by emaciated cattle from ranches nearby. Went up the road to set 50 live traps around and in a brush enclosed corral. This measured about 150x60 yds and contained a thatched hut and well, with several orange trees. Most was bare sand, save a strip of dense ramajo ceniza along one side and some of it lining the dry brush fence. The sand was a mass of animal tracks, mostly lizard. Saw a young jackrabbit and a Citellus leucurus. At dusk a number of bats flew, of which the others shot Pipistrellus and Eptesicus. After dark we went to a concrete water trough at the nearby ranch but got only a fleeting glimpse of 2 bats. Caught 2 Bufo punctatus, one in the water, and another at camp after returning. One was full of eggs. It was quite hot today.