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Transcription
Quest
1948
Perognathus formosus
April 7 Punta San Felipe, 50± ft, Baja California
Nos. 12,13,14.
Two females and one male caught last night
on hill 200 yds. west of camp. The live traps
were set in the boulder-strewn water courses
and on the intervening rises between them. All
traps were set well up on the steep hillside
at least 50 yds from the base of the hill.
The Perognathus formosus were caught mainly
on the flat ground on top of the rises,
the traps in the water-courses yielding
Peromyscus erimitis. A few spots with soil
beneath Enoclia bushes were honeycombed
with burrows, possibly of the formosus
species.
8:45 P.M. ten mouse traps (museum special)
set before dark caught three Perognathus formosus
females. Traps set along trail leading west of
camp in area between talus slope and sea shore.
Area sand and rocks with Enoclia and Cereote.
Two specimens put up - nos. 18+19.
April 10 Five caught, 3♀ + 2♂, on rocky hillside east
of camp at least 100 yards from desert association
of sand, ocotillo and creosote. Other mammals
caught in accompanying live traps were
Perognathus spinatus and Peromyscus erinitis.
April 12 9 mi W. Punta San Felipe, 200± ft, Baja California
One caught on decomposed granite hillside
with a Perognathus spinatus + a Perognathus erinitis #45.
(50 traps set)