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T. Rodgers -- 1942.
203D
Itinerary
Sacramento Valley trip, Mar. 6, 7, 8, 9.
fine talus that it would not furnish cover for
skinks. We turned west again, and at Arbuckle,
we turned south to search the floor of the valley for
skinks. We spent the rest of the day looking under
lumber and debris around abandoned and occupied
ranch yards. We found an abundance of apparently
suitable habitat, all the associated animals,
well-drained porous soil, but no skinks. We feel
fairly safe in assuming that skiltonianus has not
extended its range onto the floor of the valley in
the southern part of the western side of the Sacramento
Valley.
We crossed the Sacramento River at Rio Vista,
the San Joaquin River at the Antioch Bridge, drove
southeast through Brentwood and up Marsh Creek.
We made a stop 5 mi. SE Clayton, where Dalquest
collected a Diadophis and a Lampropeltis and Cook
collected a Pituophis. We arrived in Berkeley
about 7:00 p.m.
Catalog of specimens collected on the trip,
extcept about 10 or 15 collected at the first 3 localities
by Cook, and about 5 collected at several
localities by Dalquest, follows on pp. 204-216.