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Murray
1948
Neotoma lepida
Apr 9 Punta San Felipe, 50±ft, Baja California.
Jens Schuyler traps were each placed in front of a wood-rat nest with droppings evident. These all were holes in the rocks located on talus covered hillsides (see journal).
Vegetation was sparse - some creosote, encelia and a few others. The traps caught 2♂1♀.
There were also 2 Peromyscus crinitus in the traps. Reset them all, moving those which had rats. There are quite a number of nests on these hillsides.
Apr 10 Same location
This time the traps had no rats, only 2 Peromyscus crinitus.
Apr 18 Cerro Prieto, 20 mi SSE Mexicali, Baja Calif.
Had 7 Schuyler traps out, 6 on the rocky slope inside the crater and 1 high up on the mountainside. All was dark lava rock (see journal for description).
A little creosote and some other bushes.
The single trap was in front of a wood-rat burrow with fresh droppings - caught one but with crushed skull. The other six held one♂
May 5 Bahía Concepción, 30±ft., 13 mi SE Mulege, Baja Calif.
Had out 50 museum special mouse traps along a rocky hillside. Growing there were ocotillo, creosote, copal and other