Field notes, v1502
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Murray 1948 Apr 11 Punta San Felipe, 50+ ft., Baja California dotted with granite rocks and containing some of most of the kinds of vegetation. Mammals and birds were scarce. I saw one lone jackrabbit, rather large, in the wash. There was a wood-rat nest in a large dead brush with straw-like material and several green branches lying around. This is the only nest I have seen here which wasn't in a hole, and it wasn't very well built up. There were many kangaroo rat tracks in the sand. A verdine costa hummingbird, and also black-throated gray warbler, cash throated flycatcher were in the wash. A red-tailed hawk soared overhead. Of the reptiles I saw 5 Callisaurus draconoides, 2 immature, 10 Cnemidophorus tesselatus, 2 Dipsozaurus dorsalis, and a great many Uta stansburiana. The Callisaurus were all in sand; ran very rapidly and did not allow any closer approach than 15 feet. Their tails curled up as they ran. One Cnemidophorus was well up on a rocky hillside on the far end; the others were distributed throughout all parts of the flat land (see species account). There was no sign of any Phrynosoma,