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Mayhew
1961
Journal
36.
June 3
Northern Baja California, Mexico
These animals were not nearly as
abundant as I had expected. Even
during this very dry year in Riverside
we see as many in a given locality
as we did near Rumorosa. We saw
only 3 more adults of this species
as we drove from Rumorosa to
Mexicali. We turned south at Mexicali
and headed for the Laguna Salada on
Highway 5. We stopped at the sand
dunes at Los Medanos (88 kilometers
south of Mexicali) to look for Uma
notata. It was getting rather
late in the afternoon so only a
very few Uma were seen. The wind
was blowing fairly hard, so we couldn't
tell from tracks in the sand the
relative abundance of lizards. Then
we drove further south to La
Ventana (18 miles south of Los
Medanos) where we camped in a
week 3 miles to the west. We
drove 151 miles today.
[55 miles]
June 4
We returned to Los Medanos this
morning to look for Uma notata. We
looked from 0800 to 0930. The air temp.
(30") was 31.0 C when we began looking.
Few animals of any kind were seen
and almost as few tracks. Although
this location looks reasonably lush