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1775ft, 8 mi. s. San Luis, 34 mi. nw. Caborca, Sonora.
April 11, 1938, continued.
St. Elena, tho only 2 miles from this camp,
is very small, a mining camp (unstable), and not
on any map; so the above directions chosen.
Set 50 mousetraps and 7 rat-traps along banks
of wash and on hillside.
April 12, 1938
Caught 7 Perognathus intermedius (♂ 145-8; ♀ 149-51),
(cheek-pouch contents saved), 4 Peromyscus eremicus (♂ 152,153;
♀ 154,156), and 1 Nectoma albigula (♂ 155). The trap-line ran
thru the typical terrain of this region: hills with rocky
surface of tan-brown granite-like rocks (much quartz mixed in)
cut with many small arroyos and some larger washes; the
vegetation is much heavier (3-4 times or more) than the level
desert and is predominantly palo verde and creosote with
good representation of saquaros, patayos, ochotillo, nopal, cholla,
and barrel-cactus, also many soft succulents and other small
forms that I do not know. The creosote, nopal, ochotillo, and
a low-growing, unstalked cholla are in bloom.
Put up specimens with help from Dr. Benson and Señor
Delgadillo before they left to rob a bee-hive which Dr. Benson
discovered in the rocks on his trap-line. What little honey there
was in the hive was burned when a woodrat nest below the
hive caught fire from the smudge-fire. Dr. Benson shot two
quail for the table.
Set out 50 mousetraps and 7 mousetraps in area
adjacent and similar to that of last night.