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Mayhew
1960
April 13
Journal
25.
Colorado Desert, Riverside Co., Calif.
Road from 1950 to 2215. 3 Crystalus
creastes (one a very small one) were seen on
the road during our night collecting,
but we didn't bother them. We camped
for the night near 1000 Palms. The
animals collected today were:
Dipsozaurus lorealis - 5 (2 ad ?; 1 im ?; 2 im ♀)
Uma notata - 28 (14 ad ?; 9 ad ♀; 1 im ?; 4 im ♀)
Uroaaurus graciosa - 8 (4 ad ?; 2 ad ♀; 1 ad ?; 1 im ?)
Uta stansburiana - 1 (ad ?)
Crystalus wiesigeni - 1 (ad ?)
Phrynozoma mi'calli - 1 (ad ♀)
Coleonyx variegatus - 2 (ad ?)
Total - 46
Maximum temp. today was 93°F., minimum
temp. tonight was 54°F. We drove 144 miles.
Apr. 14
We arose at 0645, after breakfast we
drove along the old highway, between 1000
Palms to Garnet, looking for reptiles.
3 Phrynozoma platykinos (ad ?), 1 Uta
stansburiana (ad ?) + Uroaaurus graciosa (ad ?)
were caught along the road. Then we
drove to our collecting site 3 miles N.W.
of Palm Springs. By the time we arrived,
the wind was blowing rather hard. Animals
was hard to find and even harder to
capture in the wind. Therefore, we returned
to Palm Springs and found no wind
blowing. We collected along Vista Chino