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Quest
1948
Journal
76
May 22 Buena Vista, 25½ ft, 23°35'N, 109°41'W, Baja California
The skulls of the Macrolus taken at the
first cave were cataloged by Murray & Tevis; Dr
Benson put up the one Leptomys!
May 23 Same Location. Minimum temperature last night
was 69°F. It was a beautiful still moonlit
night with a full moon and no clouds in the
sky.
50 live traps set along a brush fence 500
yards N.W. of camp and through sandy arroyo-
bottom caught only two Perognathus spinatus
(#238+239). The sparsity of the catch I believe
to be caused by the brilliant illumination of
the full moon last night. Netted two Myotis
californicus in a house 30 yards N. of camp,
in which people are living in, last night. The
bats were caught at dusk and were noted
feeding around the mesquite and in the house
the night previously. A Peromyscus eremicus live
in the slatshed roof.
A Cactus wren has a nest in one of the
outer branches of a Palo Verde tree next to
camp. There are young for they are heard when
the bird arrives with food.
Our camp is situated in a large clump
of mesquite and Palo Verde trees about 300
yards north of the school here. We are camped
at the west end of the bay, about 55 yards