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Murray
1948
Journal
July 1 10 mi SE Mesquital, 400± ft, Baja Calif.
Traps in the wash caught 2♂, 1♀ Perognathus
arenarius, 1♂ Dipodomys meriamii, 1♀
Dipodomys agilis and 1 released. The other traps
had 1♂ Dipodomys meriamii, 1♂, 1♀ Perognathus
arenarius, 1♂ Dipodomys agilis and
2 released (1♀). One of the arenarius not
in the wash was near it, the other was
several hundred feet away. A Snagler set
on the bank caught 1♂ Neotoma lepida, discarded.
Today the fog lifted early and left a
boiling hot day. There was a thunderstorm
over some hills to the north where a big
cumulus cloud forms daily, and we heard
it rained a little in San Ignacio.
Set 100 live traps, 50 on the usual yucca-
ocotillo ground and the other mostly
well into one of the areas of small shrubs
mentioned previously. About 20 traps from
this line extended down a shallow slope
which graded into the wash SE of where the
bank ran out. The sand here is fairly soft
with a slight gravelly crust, and the vegetation
still the same as that above. In this
vicinity the rabbits abound. Brush rabbits
tend to be in the wash, while jackrabbits
are almost all up on the flat and grouped
within a relatively small area. They are