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Weston
1946.
33
Journal
July 13 1 mi S Virginia Dale Mine, 1900' San Bernardino G, Calif.
main road from our Dale Camp on July 11-12.
Deciding to have a late supper we set out
to collect for a while as well as set some
traps. Dr. Miller and I both set out about
75 snap traps apiece. I set mine on the
sandy soil, around bases of small 2+'high
brushes, down along a dry wash. Back at
camp we ate dinner about 7:45 p.m. One
bat was seen flying about camp at dusk.
from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. we three went over
to some sandy soil by Virginia Dale mine
to look for ground snakes. Lots of tracks
were seen; No snakes however. Returning to
camp we went to bed about 9:30 p.m.
July 14
Up at 4:30 a.m. after spending a rather restless
night, I ran my trapline. The moon is full
now and the nights are quite brightly lit
up. Out of 75 traps I caught 1 Dipodomys
deserti and 2 Dipodomys merriami. Out of
about the same number of traps set out in
the floor of the valley to the SW of camp,
Dr. Miller caught 10 Dipodomys merriami
and 1 Perognathus longimembris. This latter
gets kind
species is the first, caught on this trip.
Back at camp Dr. Miller tells me he found
part of a mountain sheep or Desert Bighorn
(Ovis canadensis) horn. They are [illegible]