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JESimpson,1938
27.
775± ft., Tinajas delos Papagos, Sierra del Pinacate, Sonora
March 21,1938, continued
Set out 50 mousetraps and fifty livetraps.
March 22,1938
Caught 2 Perognathoss intermedius in black lava
field (5744,5745,JES) and 2 Dipodomys merriami (5746,5747,JES)
in the mousetraps; 1 Dipodomys merriami in the livetraps(578)
The kangaroo rats were taken in the light sand of the
washes which run thru the dark lava. The testes of each
of these males were descended. Also 4 (one?) Peromyscus eremicus,
in lava.
In the afternoon shot four lizards (Uta?) in the
dark lava fields.
Late afternoon set out 50 mousetraps and 50 livetraps.
About 4:20PM shot a bat (5755, Pipistrellus hesperus) in the
large wash that leads to the Papago tanks; an hour later
shot 3 more bats (538, Myotis californicus; 540?,560? P.hesperus
in the same wash near the tanks where they were seen
to come to drink.
Large numbers (50+) of mourning doves also come to
the tanks for water in the dusk; three shot for the table.
March 23,1938
Caught one Perognathous intermedius (574) atop a
rocky hill in the middle of large, level, small-rock, dark lava
field; the other 49 traps set in this field yielded nothing,
but 20
Peromyscus
eremicus.
The 50 live traps set in coarse-dark-sand-and-rock
level lava field yielded nothing.
Set 50 live traps and 50 mouse traps in the coarse
sand (and creosote) at the base of Sykes crater, two miles.