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J. Rodgers - 1942
Erneea skeltoniana
July 20 (cont.) Mus. Vert. Zool., Univ. Calif., Berkeley, Alameda C., Calif.
indiameter and many small ones. Altogether,
we moved about two yards of dirt & rocks,
opened a hole about four feet wide and
ten feet long that went back in from the
surface about three feet at the deepest place.
1 1/2 to 2 feet under the surface, we found damp
soil, We found half a dozen tarantula tunnels (short)
one smooth tarantula (Brachathelis), three or
four Jerusalem crickets (Stenopelmatus), four or
five centipedes (brownish ones - not the big
yellow gun one), several beetles, a cache
of seeds (probably pocket mouse), some
burrows (about 1/2" in diameter) that could
have been made by skinks, but no skinks.
At the top of the ridge, just about 100 yards
south of the power line and 50 feet north
of the point where an old road reaches the
ridge from the west, around a large rock
outcrop, we found conditions that seem worth
further investigation. The rocks were all
damp, but not dripping as they were on July
5/ It was not as cold or quite as windy as on
July 5). We dug down into the talus, close to the
overlapping rocks and found that a mixture
of light, soft, moist dirt and rock
fragments extending down deep alongside.
This material seems to have collected in a