Catalogue and journal, v1566
Page 567
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J. Pardzore 120 Cedar Canyon, 5000 ft., Providence Mts., San Bernardino Co., Calif. May 25, 1938 get any to answer. This—After that I went out about 45 minutes looking under rocks and in crevices for the clima cleared away and the sky was clear all night. geckos or what might be there. This morning Dr. Ginnell woke me up and showed me a frying pan full of bacon. (4:40) As soon as I was dressed, breakfast was ready. After breakfast I checked to see that the bait was ok on my lizard trap. The trap consists of a box with trap doors in the top? it, a string of mealworms hanging from above for bait, and a window in the end. I had set it last meal still 10" square 10" *night. The worms were alive and kicking, and they had not chewed the string in two so I left the trap, to look at it again at noon. My morning activities can largely be accounted for by species notes on Cnemidophorus tesselatus and Sceloporus magister. I turned over much debris (mostly dead Joshua Trees) but found nothing under them except ants, termites, tenebrionid beetles, and a big green centipede. I collected a Sceloporus, some Utae (s.), a collared lizard, and some Cnemidophorus. After looking at the trap, I went up on the west-facing slope and turned over many rocks. I worked there for over an hour and found only one lizard and no snakes. The lizard was a young collared lizard. After lunch I looked at my trap. The mealworms were