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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