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Murray
1948
3
Dipodomys merriami
Apr.28 30mi SE Mesquital, 600±ft., Baja California.
Had 50 live traps out on hard packed rocky ground, with ocotillo, yucca, cholla,
cardone and several kinds of brush. There
were many open spaces. Caught 1♀,
although 3 others opened by coyotes may have
also contained them.
May12 24.3mi SE El Refugio, 100±ft., 24°33′N, 111°35′W, Baja Calif.
Set 50 live traps on the flat dry plain
of packed silty sand and bearing fairly
dense cholla, pitahaya agria, and some
cardon, ocotillo, matorara and pitahaya
dulce. Caught 3♂, 1♀, with one trap [illegible]
chewed open and many closed but
empty. Traps were 60-70 feet apart.
Also took 2 Dipodomys agilis.
A dense fog came in during the night.
June 3 6 mi N San José del Cabo, 250±ft., Baja Calif.
Set out 50 live traps on the flat sandy
ground near camp. Part were next to
thick clumps of ramajo ceniza, the rest more
in the open and near dry brush piles or
scattered bushes. Beside one of the latter
caught 1♀
June 17 W end Sano de Hurey, 50±ft., Baja Calif.
Set 50 live traps on two ocotillo-cholla-
pitahaya covered sand dunes of very
soft sand. Also put out 7 rat traps near