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Mayhew
1963
Journal
43.
Sept. 18
Glamis area, Imperial Co., Calif.
in large quantities by S. couchi,
according to Lonnie. We returned to
UCR at 1345 with 17 S. couchi, 8
of which were paired. The trip covered
418 miles.
Sept. 24
Lon McClanahan, Lloyd Tevis and
I left UCR at 0015 in order to
release some adult Scaphisopus
couchi and see where they go. We
reached Purgatory Wash (6 mi. east
of Glamis) at 0430 and released
the first toads at 0515, the last
at 0640. By 0725 all the toads
were wild, so we began looking
for pools with tadpoles in them.
The only pools with tadpoles we
could find were against the east
side of the Algodones Dunes. However,
we heard of some others, but didn't
have time to check them out.
Everett Van der Poel told us of a
pool 6 mi. N.W. of Glamis, &
Saylor told us of a pool near
Purgatory Flat, both of which had
tadpoles in them. None of the washes
we examined east of the Chocolate
Mts. contained pools with tadpoles.
We returned to UCR at 1750
after a trip of 432 miles.