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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