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Murray
1948
101
Journal
June 6 Punta Gasparina, 23°16'N, 110°09'W, 10±ft., Baja Calif.
We drove on to the above location, over
a little used and much washed road. Many
spots did not look as though they would
last through another rain. Much of the
trine passed up over small rolling mountains,
and near the last were near the ocean.
The vegetation was as usual, though parts
were lower and scrubbier.
Our camp is in a broad wash near the
beach, at the edge where a low hill slope
meets it. This has a short growth of
lumboi, ocotillo, dulce mangrove, pitahaya,
and some other shrubs. It is mostly
soft sand. In the wash itself grows
some dense thickets of romerillo, and
another common wash plant, mostly
concentrated along the edge.
Set out 100 live traps, half around
the edges of growth in the wash, and the
other half on the slope in fairly thin
vegetation and mostly soft sand.
Saw only 1 small bat in the evening.
June 7 Same location
The traps in the wash caught 2 ♂ Perognathus
arenarius, while those on the hill had 3 ♀
Perognathus arenarius and 4 ♀ Perognathus
spinatus