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Mayhew
1960
Journal
55.
July 16 Mojave Desert, San Bernardino Co., Calif.
We set out 11 mammal traps at our campsite, then ate dinner. I took two groups night collecting after we ate. In all, I drove 80 miles night collecting. We saw 1 Crotalus cerastes,
several Hadrumus hirsutus, 1 Canis latrans,
1 DOR Chionactis occipitalis, + 1 Colonyx
variegatus. We night collected from
2015 to 0110.
July 17 We arose at 0530 + checked the
mammal traps. Seven of the 11 traps
contained animals (3 Peromyscus sp., 2
Perognathus sp., + 2 Neotoma sp.). After
breakfast we looked for Sauromalus
obesus (caught 3) + Crotaphytus collaris
(caught 3) on the rocky slopes. We also
marked a tortoise near the top of a
small hill just west of camp that was
taken from a burrow occupied last
year by a marked animal (#6). Later
we marked 2 more Gopherus agassizi
in the flat creoste rock scmb near
the Barstow - Lucerne Valley Road. We
also caught several lizards there (Uta
stanshuriana, Urosaurus graciosus, Callisium
diaconides, Cnemidophorus tigris, Phrynosoma
platyrhinos). When the animals became
inactive near the middle of the day,
we returned to Lucerne Valley. After
lunch, we head for UCSB, which