Field notes, v1523
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3 Phyllozia, 10 Crpy, and 11 also longi. The Phyllozia were on the rock-stream, more open hills north to our campsite. Our camp is at the western base of the Turk's Saddle along a temporary stream that drains from that mountain, and along another larger stream that comes down the main canyon from the large forest. At 5 pm put 35 museum spec, 5 Sherman, and 3 steel traps in the "desert" down the canyon almost to the main road; mouse, buckgrass, colletta, and acerva. Some colve follow the creek all the way down to the road, which brings them to within 1 km of Cueva Triful. Three steel traps in rocky crevice sets around a rock stock sticking up out of the desert. A few buckgrass mice are feeding and mice are gathering the seeds. Sets of old tracks in the desert. Carol noticed that many branches on mossy cypress tree have had patches of bark removed. Usually circle about 1" diam, the cutting sometimes almost girdling. Horizontal limbs will be eaten for the underside if there is another branch for the mouse to stand on. Big cypress are not chewed. The chewing may be keeping in the tree. Optuma is a sapling growing out of a dense clump of Colletta. Morning had some drizzle, afternoon occasional rain, thunder cloudy again at dusk. Soon after sunset, cloudy, a cold wind coming down the canyon, I found a snake on a cold barbed, the only snake I have seen in [illegible] ? no. = Tachymenis parviva.