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Mayhew
1958
Aug. 5 Colorado Desert, Calif.
In fact, a depression beside the
San Felipe Creek bridge on highway 78
still contained water. It didn't
appear that these rains had caused
very much erosion in the bed. We
returned to Riverside (via Warners
Hot Springs) at 1545.
Aug. 22 Tonight at 2045 Mark Kohn, Bill
Light, Ed Cowan + I headed for the
Colorado Desert. We reached Scissors
Crossing about 2330 and drove down
the road towards Vallecito (night
collecting). We returned to Scissors
Crossing after driving a couple of
miles, however, because we were
getting low on gas. (Forgot to say
we caught 2 Bufo sp. on the way
down: 1 caught by irrigated field 3mi.
north of Surprise Summit, San Diego Co., Calif.;
the other 1mi. south of Warners
substation, San Diego Co., Calif.) We
tried to collect as we proceeded
toward Brawley, Imperial Co., Calif. for
gas. A young Dipodomys dorealis, 2
young Phyllodactylus duvaurius & a
Coleonyx variegatus were caught on the
Aug. 23 way (data in collection notebook). After
getting gas in Brawley at 0415, we
headed east toward Elamio, Imperial
Co., Calif. We slept for a couple of