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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