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J. Rodgers - 1939
146
Mrs. Vert. Zool., Univ. Caly, Berkeley
Alameda Co., Caly.
Sept. 23, 1939
Acc. no. 5955 (cont.)
Smith, chief operator at Big Creek [power house], says he has seen lots of the mottled kind [large female].
"...he also says that the large ones he has caught croak like a frog, which [the large ones do] in a small way...."
2299 Dicamptodon ensatus - small one; spring & gills; taken in spring (water). MVZ 29395
2300 D. ensatus ♀; mottled back like other Dicamptodon in collection 29396
2301 D. ensatus ♂; back apparently uniform? gray?; testes about 15 mm. long. 29397
2300 ♂ has two large egg masses in his body cavity. They each measured 78 mm by 15 mm. Each mass contained about 95 eggs. The eggs average about 4.6 mm in diameter.
Sept. 26, 1939
Acc. no. 5956
This specimen, brought in by Gene Shore, has been shinned. I am going to try to tan the skin, and get the bugs to clean the skeleton.
Arizona
Summer, 1937
2302 Heloderma suspectum.
Collected by San Diego Society, given to Shore, Summer, 1937.