Field notes, v1568
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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