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Dipodomys (merriami?)
Dec. 30, 1938 - that seemed too large
for merriami I think they were
deserti because many four traps
would be drag several ft when
set. All of the Dipo tracks seemed
to concentrate on the lee side of
sand dunes, on the lee side of
small grey bushes that had a
very prickly fruit. This concentrate
of tracks on the lee side I think
may have been due to wind
blowing the fruits towards the lee side
where I could usually find small
pills of the burrs. These fruits
had much the same appearance
of star thistle fruits (Centarea)
except that the spines were not as
long and much broader at the base.
There were many small holes an inch
or two deep, some of them with Dipo
tracks around them. I dug at some
places where the soil was disturbed, as
if a beetle had dug in, and found a
small brown beetle at the bottom. I
collected several of these and have
given them to Mr. R.F. Lillston.
Other places of soil disturbance proved
to be places where small plants were
breaking through the surface