Field notes, v1732
Page 129
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R. Zweifel May 23, 1952 Aneides flavipunctatus 59 2 mi. NW Calistoga 610', Napa Co., Calif. Fifty flavis were found in about 1½ hours of collecting at this locality. About half the number were associated with a fallen digger-pine, either on the rotten log, under back, or beneath the logs on the ground. The remainder were beneath rocks. Aneides lugubris was greatly outnumbered here, only 12 being found - these too were equally distributed between logs and rocks. On one occasion, 2 lugubris and one flavi were found under the same rock. The locality of capture is on a ridge trending south-westward into the north end of the Napa valley. The immediate site of collection is a grassy hillside spotted with a few black oak, manzanita, and digger pine. A single douglas fir is mixed in with oaks and manzanita about 200 yards up the ridge, and about ¼ mile down the ridge there is a homestead surrounded by Doug firs and oaks. Probably before the land was cleared this spot was in the marginal area where the fir forest meets the digger pines. The temperature at the site of collection in one of the logs was 14.2°C