Field notes, v492
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G. Alarick 1938 45 38-285 View looking down Cedar Canyon framed by Joshua on left + Yucca Baccata on bottom. Wash with Chrysothamnus in foreground runs into successive Desert Willow groves, very tip of *pinnaele showing on horizon, right side to gap. Wash trapped extremely by Joshuas. f16-70; K2; Loopan. 38-286 Workings of Thomomys providencialis showing storage burrows when gopher has taken clumps of plant (op? - impues along with other common grasses & plant in vicinity of holes). "Gopher chooses invaluable stern plants in preference to valuable plants (Tilarum, etc. bunchgrass, etc) for cattle (6" ruler for size). Loopan; f22-841. 38-287 Saeloporus occidentalis bi-seriatus on rock in wash. Snout to vent = 82. Tail = 113. Colors: Bis, bronze. Small scales around eye, brownish-yellow. Side of head, dark grey; spots of light turqois anterior to ears and below angle of jaw. Top of head mottled light brown and black; spots of pale turqois. Back sides black, dorsal-lateral lines gray. Scale center of back and sides, turqois blue; lateral lines, lighter turqois blue. Tail dorsally