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Murray
1948
Perognathus formosus
Apr 7 E side Cocopah Mts, 21 mi SSE Mexicali, Baja Calif.
Had 50 live traps out in a sandy wash
full of granite rocks and surrounded
on three sides by talus covered slopes.
Ironwood, creosote and other shrubs grow
in it. Caught 1. There were also 3 Perognathus
spinatus, and 3 Peromyscus crinitus.
Apr 9 Punta San Felipe, 50-67, Baja California
50 live traps set on the barren talus covered
slopes had 12. These hillsides are steep,
very rocky shale, with sparse vegetation of
creosote, encelia and a few others. Also
caught 5 Peromyscus crinitus and 1 Perognathus
spinatus.
Apr 10 Same location
50 traps again in the talus held 1+39.
The area was just the same as above