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Murray
1949
Journal
June 17 W end Ilano de Hiney, 50' ft., Baja Calif.
In the live traps caught 1♂, 1♀ Dipodomys
meriamii and 1♂, 1♀ young. 2♀ Dipodomys
agilis, 2♂, 1♀ Perognathus baileyi and 3♂, 1♀
baileyi young. Also 1 young Perognathus
arenarius. Released all young ones.
The rat traps had 2♂ Perognathus baileyi.
The 20 traps which were empty at 9:15 M last
night turned up with 4 rats and 1 mouse.
Almost every one of the traps had been
visited by mice, rats or both. In most cases
the seeds had been eaten out of the front
of the trap, others they apparently were
afraid to touch. With all the tracks showing
so clearly it was possible to get some idea
of their nocturnal activity. Under bushes,
and especially cholla there were many tracks,
of ten an almost solid mass of them. Out
in the open there was less movement, but
most of the space had been covered by one
or another to some extent.
After finishing up the specimens we
went on to Pozo Grande, where we camped
beside the pond as before. This time there
was not the great crowd of Myotis
yumanensis. Rather, only 4 or 5 appeared
late and flew rapidly over the surface.
A number of Eptesicus fuscus fed nearly