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Murray
1948
Journal
July 7 10 mi SE Mesquital, 400 ft., Baja Calif.
Took up my three futile gopher traps
and reset them in new holes. These looked
pretty fresh and were each in a group
of several mounds located past the bank,
where the high ground intergrades in a
gentle slope with the wash, and the ground
is soft gravel.
The weather turned hotter today, lacked fog.
July 8 Same location
Caught 2♂ Thomomys bottae out of
3 traps
Went out this morning to look for
squirrels, largely in the same area north
as before. Found none along any of the
rocky banks, but one small area of
packed sand in the wash produced several,
mostly young, which I found too wary
to shoot.
There is one strip of very soft sand
in the wash in which I regularly see
a number of quail. Today there was
one pair, another pair with 3 small young,
and still another with 2 small young.
These were fairly bold.
Today turned out to be blazing hot with
very little breeze
I have seen several thrashers in the
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