Field notes, v1502
Page 547
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
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