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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