Field notes, v1502
Page 253
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Murray 1948 Journal May 30 El Chorro, 800 ft., 2 mi. W Agua Caliente (Cape District) Baja Calif. Today went out last night had put out 20 live traps late in the evening along the rocky bank next to the road. However none were occupied. Today went hunting snakes and lizards in the rocky wash. There were a scattering of large granite boulders among the many others and on these saw several Sceloporus magister and Streptosaurus thalassina. Cnemidophorus hyperythrus was fairly numerous in both the wash and hillside. Saw several Callisaurus draconoides in more open sandy places. Cnemidophorus maximus is the most common lizard and appears just about everywhere. One side of the wash was thickly grown with Palo zozule and had leaves and dead branches lying on the ground. Stumbled around here for shrubs but saw none. Was able to find no snakes. Urosaurus microscutatus was numerous on tree limbs and bushes. In the evening went several hundred feet up the canyon to shoot bats. They began to fly in numbers at about 6:40, all very high and all flying downward off the hills. After a while some came low enough to shoot at. Many congregated about a sharp ridge high on the slope above us, circling around it. We could pick out the Jalanda