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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.