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Mayhew
1961
Oct. 7
Glamis area, Imperial Co., Calif.
Before we finished, we had captured 5
Uma at this location. We looked for
Phrynosoma nicolli along the road
from 1600 to 1630. The sand was blowing
so hard, however, that we weren't
surprised when we didn't find any.
The road was hard to see in spots
because of the moving sand. We
might collected on the road from 1845
to 1940 (16 miles) without seeing any
reptiles. The wind was still blowing
quite hard during this period. We
camped in the same gravel pit at 1940.
Today we caught 80 animals, as follows:
Diposaurus - 2
Urosaurus - 8
Phrynosoma nicolli - 5
Callisaurus - 3
Uma notata - 62
Oct. 8
We arose at 0800. The wind was still
blowing hard, and it was rather cold, so
we simply stayed in our sleeping bags.
We weighed, measured, & toe-clipped 2
juvenile Urosaurus graciosae and 27 Uma
notata for release at our usual collecting
site. Then we looked for marked liguda
at this site from 1015 to 1150. Two
marked ones were captured, as well as
16 unmarked ones. These animals were !