Catalogue and journal, v1566
Page 569
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J. Rodgers 5000 ft., Cedar Canyon, Providence Mts., San Bernardino Co., Calif. May 25, 1938 dried up. There was one Cremidophorus in the trap; it was trying to go out the window. 6:10 pm. Have just finished a supper of very good corned beef muldigan, bread, Dundee marmalade, an orange cookie. Sat facing east there is the coarse fine gravel floor of our draw, covered by covered by green shrubs about four feet high, just ahead of me. Across it and on up to my left in the rocky west facing slope of our draw where I rolled rocks this morning. A Scott Orchid is singing slightly to my left on the rocky slope, a brush tit to my left rear and a desert spanow singing on rocky slope across the draw to my right, and a female hummer at this minute, feeding on pentatamens almost directly behind me. About 45° off to my right I can see up the floor of the Cedar Canyon; it slopes up and widens out forming a level horizon. The shadow caused by the sun setting behind the hills west of us here, this minute (6:23) covered that horizon. There is a benchmark on that horizon which is 5160 ft. above sea level. I am told that, on the other side, the country slopes off to sage covered desert. Farther to my right is the north-facing slope of Cedar Canyon and even farther and behind me is the east-facing slope of our draw. After lunch, after writing a few notes, Elmer and I went up the gulch to photograph Bufo punctatus and some lizard[illegible] and