Field notes, v1538
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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.