Field notes, v1703
Page 209
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Thacker 1958 Journal Pg 21 July 15. Vallecito Stage Station, San Diego Co., Calif. Up by 5:30. Checked traps in Mesa Valley and had 4 Dipodomys merriami And two Perognathus. Another trap had a badly eaten Peps; a second a badly eaten Perognathus and a third a Perognathus tail. I found Neotoma in the Schlyers set in the rocks. After breakfast I spent the A.M. skinning. Slept for a couple of hours after lunch. Set 25 traps in the grass around the stage station, 50 more in the sloping valley floor across the road from the stage station, and 37 more about 1/2 mile down the road (east) along the draw leading to the main creek bed. About dusk (8 PM) we returned to the pools at Agua Caliente Hot Springs to net Pipistrels. We got a total 55 (approx) "jips"; 2 Corynorhinus and one M. californicus. About 9:30 we started checking the light coat of the stage station. 9:30:-11 PM. Calif. (?x) 11:-12 M. Calif., 1 Corynorhinus, 1 Coptericus. 12-3/4 Antropos, 1 M. Calif., 3 Corynorhinus. 12:30:-1 Corynorhinus, 1 M. Calif. at 1 AM nothing While talking to Alexander "Bud" Benoit, the caretaker at the stage station, he told of seeing occasional groups with sheep crossing the