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Mayhew
1961
Journal
13.
Mar. 16
Palm Springs, Riverside Co., Calif.
Nothing but Uma insceta was seen
today, although Lloyd Tevis told me this
afternoon he saw a Dipsoaurus dorsalis
near the laboratory at Deep Canyon. We
stopped looking for lizards at 1430.
Lloyd showed us how to get to the
dunes north of Palm Desert afterwards.
They look like the Yuma Dunes except
they are white sand. If anything, the
dunes themselves are more barren than the
Yuma Dunes, but Atriplex is thick up to
the dunes. They appear to be about one
mile long and somewhat less than 1/2
mile wide. One of the owners of the
dunes was waiting to talk to us when
we came out of the dunes. He seems to
be anxious to sell his share. His name
is Dick DuBois. His partner, George A.
Bradley, owns the rest of the dunes.
We returned to UCR at 1900 after driving
168 miles today.
Uma insceta juvenals
#1 o 52 mm. 4.2 grams
#2 o 55 " 5.1 "
#3 ♀ 59 " 5.8 "
#4 o 53 " 5.1 "
#5 o 54 " 6.0 "
We saw only large adults or juvenals
today - no intermediate animals seemed
to be out.