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Quast
1948
Journal
5
April 10 Punta San Felipe, 50+ ft, Baja California
Minimum temperature reading morning of
April 9 was 66 F, maximum yesterday
was 82 1/2 F in the shade.
Live traps yesterday caught 1 Pero-
grathus spinatus, 3 Perognathus formosus,
5 Peromyscus crinitus.
Yesterday a clear warm day with
a cool breeze from the east.
Shot a Lipestrelles leporinus at dusk
flying over the beach with 3 or 4 others
of the same species.
While we were skinning last night
in one room of the cabin 2 Tadarida
mexicana flew into the room (10:30 PM
& 11:00 P.M.) and were secured by Dr.
Benson.
Dr. Benson killed two Crotalus
cerastes in a sand gulley where he
was setting traps for Coyotes; Rattle-
snakes were killed about midnight
last night.
7:40 P.M. Minimum temperature last night
minimum
was 68 1/2 F, Maximum today was 80 1/2 F
at 1:00 P.M. although the temperature has
crisen to 80 1/2 at the time of writing after
dropping to 80 this afternoon.
Ten Schuyler traps set last night in