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Mayhew
1959
Journal
50.
May 15 Mojave Desert, San Bernardino Co., Cal.f.
the temperature cool, so little was
seen. Two Bufo boreas were collected,
at the north end of Lucerne Valley,
+ 1 Phyllorhynchus decurtatus was
found on the road about 5 miles
east of Lucerne Valley. These were
the only animals seen on our
123 mile trip tonight, however. We
began night collecting at 1930 and
quit at 2240.
May 16 We arose at 0700 and immediately
checked the 16 mammal traps we
had set out the night before. We
caught 5 Peromyscus sp. and 3
Neotoma sp., giving us a 50% take
in our traps. We began to look
for animals at 0810, right after
breakfast. We found a Gopherus
agassizi at the entrance to its
burrow, where we had released it
last May after marking it #6.
A female unmarked Gopherus was found
& marked #13 this morning,
then released near our campsite. (# 6
was on a rocky knoll due west of
our campsite.) A couple of Cnemidophorus
tigris were seen before 0900, but no
Sauromalus obesus or Crotaphytus
collaris were seen until about 1000.
They were not numerous until