Field notes, v1538
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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