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Mayhew
1960
Oct. 7, 1960
Journal
Palm Springs, Riverside Co., Calif.
Walt Moberly + I left UCR at 0600.
We checked the trap at Windy Point at 0700.
Several beetles were present, as well as
one tiny scorpion and one dead hatchling
Chimactis occipitalis, but no living reptiles.
The trap was about 1/3 full of sand. We
reached a collecting site across the
road (Ramon Road) from the cemetery at
0730. We looked for lizards from then
until 1130. During that time we saw only 2
adults, both of which we caught (1?, 1?).
A fair number of young animals (hatchlings)
were seen, the earliest at 0700. Lots of
Crotalus cerastes tracks were seen (at least
a dozen separate tracks), + one young
Crotalus cerastes was seen at the
entrance to a burrow. Almost no tracks
of adult Uma inornata were seen anywhere,
although 3 students caught 2 adults +
saw several more at this same site
yesterday. We drove to Vista Chino Ave. for
our soil sample, arriving at 1200. Then
we looked for Uma at this site until
about 1220. No animals or tracks of
adults were seen. However, 1 hatchling Uma
inornata, 1 hatchling Cnemidophorus tigris, + 1
hatchling Dipsoaurus lorealis were seen here.
We left for UCR at 1230, but saw Floyd Tevis on
the way. We reached UCR at 1630 after
driving 137 miles today.