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Mayhew
1961
Journal
49.
July 7
UCR, Riverside Co., Calif.
This morning the following animals
were taken from cages in the lab. and
placed in outdoor cage #3:
10 Dipsozaurus dorsalis
5 Uma inornata
8 Uma notata
4 Uma scoparia
This will permit us to use the
indoor cages more readily for recording
Phrynosoma m'calli body temps., which
Dave Young will be doing for the
next couple of weeks. We will be
using Univ. of Michigan's Brown
recorder for the job.
July 10
Glamis area, Imperial Co., Calif.
at 1220 Donna Hobbs, Warren
Blakely, Walt Moberly & I left UCR
for the dunes. We reached the Highline
Canal at 1620. The temp. had been 118°F.
at Brawley, but was only 43.0°C. (110°F.)
when we left the canal to look for
lizards at 1740 (we had been swimming
in the meantime). Two Callisaurus
dumosus were seen on the road
at 1745 when soil temp. was 50.5°C.,
asphalt temp. was 49.5°C., & air temp.(30')
was 43.0°C. Three Phrynosoma m'calli
were collected between then and sundown
(1850). At sundown the air temp. was
still high (38.8°C.).