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Mayhew
1958
June 13 Colorado Desert, Calif.
the wooden rafters. A large number
of bats were found in the cracks.
Another bridge was found 2'½ miles
west of the previous one (Dripping
Springs), which also would be easy
to work. Another bridge 5.3 miles
west of this one (5'½ miles east
of junction of Highways 714 395)
could not be worked effectively. (It
is exactly 40 miles from this junction
to UCR.) We reached UCR at 2:30 P.M.
We travelled a total of 722 miles
during the 2'½ days we were out
in the field.
August 1 This morning at 0600 Frank Aubrey
+ I left UCR for Mt. Baldy, Los
Angeles Co., Calif. We reached the
ski lifts at the end of the road
at 0710. We were following up a
report that gravid Sceloporus gracilis
had been seen there the week before.
This particular area was still in
shade at this time, so we dropped
down to a lower elevation. We
found Sceloporus occidentalis and
Vita stanburiana quite common in
a stream bed at 4700 feet elevation.
However, most of the animals we
captured were ♀. Frank caught a
young Crotalus viridis in the