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Murray
1948
145
Journal
July 6 10 min SE Mesquital, 400+ ft., Baja Calif.
I also had seen one other on a bank
shortly after I started out - a total of four
for 2 or 2 1/2 hours search.
Lizards were also very scarce and
both may have been considerably influenced
by the mid day heat. Saw 2 or 3 Callisaurs,
about the same of Cnemidophorus tesselatus,
and one Sceloporus magister, all at
easily the greatest height of timidity I have
encountered on this trip for any species.
One notable exception was yesterday afternoon
late when a Callisaurus all but let me
step on it before rushing off.
Saw a violet-green swallow enter a hole
near the top of a tall cardon in the wash.
In the late afternoon after it had
become cooler again I went back hunting
squirrels. Looked in the places where they
were before, but found none there or
anywhere else.
One woodrat ambled across a 20 foot
open stretch from a nest to a fallen
cardon. Saw a hummingbird chasing
an insect, probably a wasp, over a
tortuous route, with many arcs and
dives, staying two or three inches
behind it for quite some time.