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Quest
1948
Journal
22
April 17 Cerro Prieto 30 ft, 20 mi SSE Mexicali Baja Cal/
and mesquite, and 50 Museum Specials in
a similar association; and 10 Schuyler traps
higher in rocks.
The mosquitoes are very bad at night.
April 18
4:00 P.M. Have moved back to the irrigation
slutch for the night in order to be cooler
under the mesquite and take baths and
wash our clothes. We moved from the base
of Cerro Prieto about 3:00 P.M.
100 mouse traps (50 live and 50 Museum
Specials) set in rocks near sand and
mud flat last night caught 1 Perognathus
baileyi, 5 Perognathus spinatus, ~~two
Peromyscus eremicus, and 5 Perognathus
penicillatus. 10 Schuyler traps set higher
in rocks caught nothing.
Minimum temperature last night was
67°F; Maximum (about 1:00 PM) was 96°F.
The day has been sunny and clear, a nice
breeze blowing from the north.
We are breaking camp and heading back
to Mexicali tomorrow morning.
April 19
(Written in Mexicali). It was cool last night;
minimum temperature being 62°F. Dr. Benson
shot a Batocerus last evening, and I shot
one female Pipistrellus hesperus and one
female Tadarida mexicana. Dr. Benson found