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Munday
1948
Journal
July 14 8 mi N Rosario, Baja Calif.
On the west, with a deep cut wash on
the other side and a tall cliff beyond it.
The whole countryside is mountainous
and rugged.
Set out 105 live traps, 30 up on the
nearby hillside, a hard crusty surface
of soil with a little sandstone. The
vegetation is almost entirely bushes, fairly
dense, and a few buckeye trees or bushes.
20 more were on a flat place by camp,
featuring only very low scattered bushes.
The other 50 went along the far bank
of the wash, which was silty and thickly
grown with bushes and large agaves.
Cactus is greatly lacking throughout the
area, with only an occasional cholla
or pitahaya.
Found a Crotalus ruber just the other
side of a brush from camp, running
out in the open. Did not move while
I went back for a gun, returned, or
even when I shot it until a few minutes
later.
July 15 Same location
On the hill caught 10 Dipodomys
, 7 D, 19 Peromyscus eremicus.
In the wash was 10 Perognathus