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Mayhew
1963
Journal
35.
Aug. 20 Glamis area, Imperial Co., Calif.
but we could find no trace of adult
amphibians or tadpoles. Consequently,
we camped there for the remainder
of the night (2 miles N. of Amos).
Aug. 21 We looked the pools over carefully
in daylight, but still could find no
trace of amphibians. A number of
diving beetles were in the pools,
but we found little else. One
pool at Regina and 1 at Amos
were still quite large (about 100 ft.
large yet), but no evidence of
amphibians could be seen. Apparently
these animals are not distributed
much north of Glamis. However,
the vegetation from Amos north is
quite sparse, and probably would
not give amphibians the protection
they need the remainder of the year.
We returned to the large wash
east of the Chocolate Mts. we
had investigated the night before.
We released 2 S. couchi out on the
open bed of the wash to see what
they would do. Both sat motionless
for several minutes, then they hopped
to the shade at the bank of the
wash. One dug in in the shade
of an ironwood tree (Olveya tesota)