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Mayhew
1961
Journal
34.
June 1
Laguna Mts., San Diego Co., Calif.
Walter Moberly, Steven Peterson &
I left UCR at 1700 in International
Travelall # 383, headed for Mexico &
Arizona for a week. We dropped
some marked Uma insuata & Diposaurus
dorsalis at Granddaddy Dune near 10:00
Palms, then drove up the Palms to
Pinto Highway to the Anza turn-off.
We saw a relatively young (~24")
Cristalus viridis on the road near
Anza shortly after dark. We chased
it off the road, then drove to the
Laguna Mts., where we camped for
the night. We drove 170 miles today.
June 2
Northern Baja California, Mexico
The next morning we crossed into
Baja Calif. at Tecate, then drove
east to Rumorosa. We drove south
about 12 miles to a campsite
near the Tete de la India where we
had seen Sceloporus orcutti previously.
The weather was relatively cool, so we
didn't see any S. orcutti this
afternoon. However, we were able to
capture 27 Xantusia hedwawi by prying
off granite flakes. Almost every
flake had a lizard under it. Some
flakes contained 2 lizards. A couple
of flakes revealed 2 to 5 dead lizards
beneath them. It looked as if some