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Quail
1948
Journal
69
May 19 Trumbo, 1700 ft., Baja California.
minimum temperature?
shot two Cetus [illegible] this afternoon at
1:30 in a brush fence 200 yards east of our camp
(#215, 216). Also shot one Roadrunner (#214) which
was stirring through the leaves and debris under
a small tree on a sidehill 300 yards east of
here. The Roadrunner had a large Cnemidophorus
tessellatus (approx 10 in long) in its gizzard.
Lizards are very common here in the late
morning (around 11 AM) and mid-afternoon, several
Cnemidophorus of large size coming into our
camp each morning while we are sleeping. During
the hottest part of the day they are not as com-
mon, apparently moving about much less. Other
lizards seen here have been Dipsoaurus dorsalis,
Galvavirus draconides, the small Sleepsaurus,
and Utas and Sceloporus magister. Bufo punctatus
are very common in the area about camp in the
evenings.
Birds are numerous in this canyon; those seen
today: Lila Woodpecker, Western Scratchele, California
Jay, Roadrunner, Hooded Oriole, Poorwill, American
Raven, American Vulture, White-winged Dove, Mexican
Dove, Zantus Hummingbird (?), Caracara, and Quail,
Cactus Wren and Plainopepels.
Murray and Tevis went into Town this afternoon
and obtained many Tadarida mexicana and T. pleciocin
luscus from the same abandoned building visited before.