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Mayhew
1959
Journal
79a.
Aug. 5
Box Springs Mts., 4 mi. N.W. of Sunnymead, Riverside Co., Calif.
(These are notes obtained by Frank Aubry)
This morning Frank & Charles Filippini
left UCR at 0515 and reached the
collecting area at 0525. They waited until
0540 at the 1800 ft. level, but the
sun was not yet hitting the
surface there, so they decided to
move on to the area above
McGregor's Ranch. They arrived there
at 0605. The temperatures at the
time were:
air temp. (30") - 19.5°C,
'' '' (1cm) - 19.5°C,
soil surface temp. - 19.0°C.
There were no lizards seen until
0645, at which time they caught an
adult Sceloporus orcutti. They stayed
in that area until 0845 and caught
6 Sceloporus orcutti & 2 Sceloporus
occidentalis. At this time no more
lizards were seen except for some
newly-hatched Uta stansburiana, so
they returned to the 1800 ft. level.
Here they caught 1 Crotalus ruber,
1 adult Sceloporus orcutti, & 2
Sceloporus occidentalis. After 0930 they
saw only 2 more lizards, both Sceloporus
occidentalis, but they were unable to
capture either of them. At 1030 they
returned to UCR. There were probably