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Quast
1948
Journal
63
May 14
miles N of La Paz, Sea Level, Baja California
(174,176) and one Citellus leucurus in the
rocks east of camp. The Citellus was obtained
at 4:00 P.M. (#175).
The day was very warm with a good breeze.
Absolutely clear sky and temperature (max.)
of 101°F in the shade under truck.
Set out 47 traps in hillside among
Cardone, Limboi, Pitaya agria, Opuntia cholla
and Prickley Pear (plus Eriophium, Creosote
and Ironwood and other shrubs). Hillside
composed of fragmented pink porous lava
rock over soil and of low gradient. 5
Schuyler sets placed along live trap line
in likely looking places for Wood Rats.
The vegetation gets denser and taller
as one approaches the suggestion of a cape
rock formation at the top of the low hills
east of camp. Many pocket-mouse workings
are visible higher up on the hill - much more
common than on lower portions. Larger boulders
are present up there with more soil and
less slope.
May 15
Same location. The 47 live traps set in lava
rock fragments on hills east of camp caught
1♀,3♂ Peromyscus eremicus (#178-181 incl) and
one ♀ Perognathus spinatus #182. Five Schuyler
traps caught one Neotoma leucodon (#179)