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J. Rodgers -1939
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Itinerary, etc.
May 13
Arroyo Mocha, 750 ft, 6.1 mi. SE Livermore
Alameda Co., Calif.
John Tash, Charles Miller and I passed
through Livermore about 10:38 am today,
and entered Arroyo Mocha about 10
minutes later. We were heading
and Art Newcomb
for a place where John Tash had
collected some whiptail last
Sunday (May 7). About six
miles up the road we crossed it
turns to the right (45°) and crosses
a bridge, crossing from the east to
the west side of the creek. The road
immediately turns left (45°) and
continues on straight for about 250
yards. It was along the foot of
the hill to the west of this straight
stretch and along the creek to the
east of it that we did all this day's
collecting. Most of the whiptail
were seen along the gravel
terraces of the creek around the bases
of Baccharis viminea bushes. Two
were seen along the edge of the road. One
ran up Tash's pantleg and we
ran into a gopher ground squirrel
hole; we caught them both. The road
is an old riverbed terrace about 4 to