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Weston
1946
Journal
July 4 Keys View, 5000 ft. Joshua Tree Natl. Mon., Riverside Co., Calif.
car and left. While at Keys View last night
and this morning I saw the following
birds: Desert sparrow
white throated swift
Turkey vulture
cactus woodpecker
reptiles: Uta stansburiana
Xantusia vigilis
Cnemidophorus tesselatus
Coluber lateralis
Sceloporus occidentalis
mammals: Dipodomys merriami
Ammospermophilus leucurus
Woodrat (house only)
Coyste (tracks only)
Rabbit (droppings and tracks)
Many small rodent burrows.
Traveling a few miles down the road we
stopped for 3/4 of an hour at 3/4 mi E + 1 3/4
mi N of Keys View. There we looked for
Xantusia vigilis, I caught 1. Dr. S. caught
4+ and Wade caught 4+. Wade saw 8 under
one group of logs. Continuing on down the
road we caught (that is Dr. S. did) one
Phrynosoma (crossing the road) at a point
5 miles E of Quail Spring. We arrived