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Murray
1948
Journal
June 27 10 mi SE Mesquital, 400± ft., Baja Calif.
The plants are dominantly yucca, ocotillo and pitahaya aquia, with a great many of several kinds of low bushes a foot or two high. There is also lumboi, creosote, frutia, cholla, candelilla. In all the vegetation is low but dense. This part happens to be free from cardons, but there are many nearby.
Set out 50 live traps near camp, spaced about 40 feet apart. In the process saw a Calif Jay, Plumbeous grnatcatcher and heard an ash-throated flycatcher. Birds, however are scarce. Did not see more than one lizard, a Cnemidophorus tesselatus
A wind has been blowing strongly all afternoon from the NW and continued into late evening. It also became quite chilly and damp. That this is a damp climate is evidenced by the orchilla on all ocotillos and some on other plants.
June 28 Same location
High fog this morning which cleared away by 9:30
In the traps caught 3♂ Dipodomys agilis,
2♀,1♂ Dipodomys merriami, and 1♂,1♀ Perognathus baileyi. The baileyi are distinctly brownish, in contrast to any we have taken elsewhere. Most of the catch was bunched