Field journal, v4297
Page 147
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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.