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Mayhew
1961
Journal
Mar. 21
UCR campus, Riverside Co., Calif.
This morning at 0930 I began looking for lizards on the east side of the campus. At that time weather conditions were: air temp.(30")-17.4°C., (1cm)-19.6°C., soil surface temp.-32.0°C., 0-3 mph breeze from N,
0 overcast. I looked in Cnemidophorus
hyperythrus habitat from 0955 to 1008
without seeing any signs of them.
at 1045 I drove up to the area around
ag. Extension Bldg.(old Director's Home for C.E.S,
I saw the first C. hyperythrus today at
1125; a little later I saw 3 of them
feeding under one bush, I was able to
catch only one of the 4 I saw today. I
had another in the air 3 times, but it
escaped from the noose each time. I
catched all the Sceloporus orcutti
I saw this morning, but several Sceloporus
occidentalis and Uta stansburiana escaped.
Fifteen animals were caught, as follows:
1 Cnemidophorus hyperythrus (ad. ♂)
8 Sceloporus occidentalis (7 ♂, 1♀)
4 Sceloporus orcutti (1 ad.♀, 1 juv. ♀, 2 ad.♂)
2 Uta stansburiana (1 ♂, 1♀)
I returned to the lab. at 1330, at
that time the air temp.(30") was 22.0°C.
Mar. 23
2 mi. S. of UCR, Riverside Co., Calif.
This morning Walt Moberly & I
drove through the coastal sage scrub
areas on Canyon Crest Drive.