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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,