Field notes, v1502
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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