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Mayhew
1961
Journal
9.
Mar. 6
UCR campus, Riverside Co., Calif.
temperatures were rather low. At
12:50 weather conditions were:
air temp (30") - 16.0°C. air temp.(1cm) - 16.6°C.
rock surface temp. - 20.0°C. 100% overcast
0-3 mph wind from NW.
A 1/2 grown Sceloporus orcutti was
seen in the open on a rock at 13:10.
An adult ? Ctenyx variigatus was captured
at 13:20 when I turned over a piece
of packing case lying on the ground on
B area. Several Sceloporus orcutti were
seen at 13:25 and at 13:40. One of them
(seen at 13:40) was captured. An adult male
Uta stansburiana & adult female Sceloporus
orcutti were captured shortly before
we left the study area at 14:00. No
other animals were seen except another
several Sceloporus orcutti, at 14:02, as
we were leaving the area. At this time
the weather conditions were: air temp.(30") - 18.4°C.
air temp.(1cm) - 21.0°C. rock surf. temp. - 24.2°C.
100% overcast 0-3 mph wind from NW.
We drove 2 miles south of the campus
on Canyon Crest Drive. No animals were
seen on any of the rocks to our old
collecting site at that point. Here we saw
3 Uta stansburiana, but could only catch one.
No other animals were seen the rest
of the afternoon. We drove on dirt
roads over many of the hillsides at