North (copy) epn 3. Dipodomys (Gmeriani?) Dec. 30, 1938 - so that the Dipodomys may have been digging either for the recently germinate seed or for the beetles. In several of the Dipods I found fruits of the small grey bush & so am sure that this is used for food. I also have noted that no tracks ever found or Dipodomys caught when this bush was not present. At our camp 16 mi. E of Calipico, there were many rather large holes dug in mounds at the foot of creosot bush and a, green shrub that had no leaves and had somewhat the appearance of Scotch broom. I dug into one of these and found many burrs, of the low grey bush, in the burrow passage, they may have been blown in by the wind but I think were carried in by Dipodomys. Here, at our camp SSE of Mt. Springs, Imperial Co., the Dipodomys are the palset we have caught yet, the sand is also the lightest color we have stopped on to date. Here I have taken slipodomys on sandy and rocky ground but nearly always,