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Mayhew
1958
Sept. 19
Journal
102.
Colorado Desert, Calif.
inornata were collected at this
location by 0915, so we left. At this
time, the air temp. was 37.6°C., the soil
surface temp. was 55°C. We then
drove through Indio, down the east
side of the Salton Sea to Brawley, then
25 miles east of Brawley to the Sand
Hills (Algodones Dunes or Yuma Dunes).
We reached the Sand Hills at 1430.
The air temp. at this time was 40.2°C.,
the sand surface temp. was 50.5°C. It
was still too warm for reptiles to be
active, so we drove 12 miles east of
Glamis to the junction of the road
with the Ogilby-Palo Verde Road. Then
we back-tracked about a mile to
a dry wash that contained many
green mesquite, etc. We collected
several specimens here. Among them were
Uta stansburiana, Sceloporus magister,
Callisaurus draconoides, Diposaurus
dorsalis. Also seen in the area
were Cnemidophorus tigris and Sauromalus
obesus. We reached this area at
1550 when the air temp. was 37.8°C., &
the soil surface temp. was 44.5°C.
We returned to Glamis at 1745 and
tried to collect Uma notata on the
dunes. The sun went down at about
this time. The air temp. was 34.7°C., &