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Quast
1948
Journal
4
April 8 Punta San Felipe, 50+ ft., Baja California.
years. Today we were told that the house
belongs to the assistant chief of police at
Mexicali.
Minimum temperature last night was 57°F,
maximum today was 76° in the shade. Yesterday
and today were beautiful days with little wind
and cloudless skies.
50 live traps set entirely in rocks and talus
above camp caught two Perognathus spinatus,
four Peromyscus crinitus and one Peromyscus
eremicus. The traps were baited with rolled
oats and bird seed - the latter seeming to
be preferred by one Perognathus pericellulus that
we have been observing in camp.
Tonight fifty live traps were set in the
talus slopes and ten Schuyler traps among
the rocks on top of the hill above camp. The
live traps again baited with rolled oats and
bird seed, the Schuylers with dried apicots.
Murray caught a Crotalus cerastes this
afternoon in the talus accumulation and
a Cemidophora in a sandy wash. Tevis
also caught a Vta and a Callisaurus.
Dr. Benson shot a Pipistrellus hesperus
flying about camp this evening.
An American Raven flew over camp this
evening.