Field notes, v1538
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Quast 1948 Journal April 12 9 mi W. Punta San Felipe, 200± ft, Baja California 6:35 P.M. Departed San Felipe 12:30 and arrived this place about 1:30. We are 9.3 miles west of San Felipe by road and are camped on a large flat wash about 200 yds from the Sierra San Felipe. The wash is composed of coarse white sand and decomposing granite rocks. Growing in the wash are tall Ocotillo, mesquite, Elaphrium, cardone, and Palo Verde. The hills have ocotillos at low levels and an occasional barrel cactus. The rock is mostly granite and weathers in a spherical fashion instead of the shale-like fractures of the lava at Punta San Felipe. The rocks and talus are noticeable lighter than those of Punta San Felipe and the slopes contain much more gravel than those around the former camp. Saw a Dipsosaurus, a Calisaurus, and shot a Cnemidophorus between two and four this afternoon. Shot a Black-throated grey warbler from the top of an Ocotillo this afternoon. Dr Benson shot one Phleomoeus Gnateater and saw a Citellus tereticaudus and several Citellus leucurus. He also found an old weathered horn of a Mountain Sheep. I set out 50 live traps on the hill-