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Country is rolling but fairly flat. Sand is white or nearly white. Borobush that I think are a type of sagebrush are the main vegetation with some smoke trees (Parosila) and one mesquite tree in a wash near camp.
Set 23 snaptraps and partially covered them with sand.
Dec. 28, 1938 Caught 2 Dipodomys and Koford caught a Dipodomys deserti and a kit fox. There are many large flocks of larks present. Set 6 gopher traps in morning and picked them up just before leaving. Caught one gopher. Collected several Tenebrionids for Lilloo.
Broke camp and drove westward towards Mt. Springs on this same road which goes west from Mt. Signal (town) across desert few miles N of Mexican border.
Tried to find type locality of Peromyscus crinitus stephensi described by Griswoll as "3 miles east of Mt. Spring, Imperial Co., Calif." but that would put you in the middle of the Mts. & not at the lowest water on wagon road near eastern base of Coast range" which is true location as given by describer of species, as it would not