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Quest
1948
Journal
12
April 12 9 mi W. Punta San Felipe, 200 ft, Baja California
sides this afternoon varying in distance
from 20 ft to 100 ft from the wash below.
There are many Nictana signs in small
hollows in the foothills and many Lepus
signs in this wash. Dr. Benson stated
that he saw probable Kit-fox and Coyote
tracks in one of the canyon washes. A
large burrow that I saw and described
to him was said to be a possible Badger.
Saw about five Ash-throated fly-
catchers perched in an ironwood and could
hear three of them from a distance of 100 yds.
Costa hummingbirds are common around
camp, one even coming up and inspecting
a red shovel handle.
Probable Dejeodonyx burrows in the
wash, some of which have a crater built
up around them of something which looks
like old dandelion seed.
We are about 5 mi. north of the type
locality of Perognathus formosus.
April 13
[Written at El Mayor, 30 ft, Rio Hardy, Baja
Calif.] The fifty live traps set in the decomposed
granite foothills caught but one Perognathus
spinatus, one ♂ Perognathus formosus, and one ♀
Peromyscus crinitus (#45-46 incl.).
Minimum temp. last night was 58° F