Field notes, v1502
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Murray 1948 Journal June 18 San Jorge, 25° 44' N, 112° 07' W, Baja Calif. with smaller leaves. Most of these now bear small, bright red berries. Some distance down begins a bank of soft sand just behind the mangroves and on it grows dulce mangrove. Here the dry growth in sand comes down to its edge. Much of the surface is a mass of shells and shell fragments. Saw several Calif. gags (see sp. act), and 3 or 4 reddish egrets flying or fishing along the shore. There was also an osprey, what? ibis and semi-palmated plover . There are several patches of the strange crawling cactus, , and some of it scattered in other parts. Saw two small rabbits, probably cottontails, in the brush and many tracks. There was also what must have been a coyote - they have well beaten trails running behind the mangroves. Set 115 traps, 50 of them live traps, in the hope of catching Berthodontonays. They were set in a variety of places; some by the low, scattered clumps of bushes in sand back of the fishing hut, others along the edges of the mangroves or the salicornia flat behind, the rest among dulce mangroves at the edge