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J.O.Straney
1976
2.
June, cont'd.
and he sounded exactly like a rattlesnake.
Holding him behind the net was of no
use in attracting others in. At 11pm I
joined the other three in sleep and
saw what was probably a kit fox
on the way back to the campsite.
June
Got up at 5:45 AM on the 26th to check the
net and, as the sun came up, saw nothing
else in it - fortunately the luis weren't
active yet. We left at around 11Am after
Lawrence and I processed specimens.
He plans to put up the bat skins. He caught
three Peromyscus (crinitus??) and I
obtained tissues from one - LGF 86, a ?.
Went to Tucker Canyon via Douglas, Az.
and hiked up to Patton's Locality there,
3 mi up trail #228, but obviously
did not find it. Tried to find a cattle
tank to net, but an owner told us none had
water in them. After fixing a hole in the
gas tank with soap, we stopped at a
farm pond in a cattle field in the desert
on the road back to Douglas - a large pond
impossible to miss and impossible to
net with 2 sets of poles. We saw 4 or
5 bats flying but by 11:15 had caught
nothing so pulled things down and