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Mayhew
1963
Oct. 14 Glamis area, Imperial Co., Calif.
Rudy Ruibal, Lloyd Tevis, Lornie
McClanahan + I left UCR to
try to dig up some of the Scaphiopus
coachi we had released in Purgatory
wash 24 September 1963. Rudy, Lon +
I left UCR at 0500 and picked
Lloyd up at his home in Ranchito
Millage. First we tried to dig up
the toad that had buried itself in
the sand bar. We dug down about
3 feet without finding any trace of
it. Next we tried to find one at
the south edge of a large ironwood
tree, but again we were unsuccessful.
We followed its hole down until
it hit a root of the tree, which
it seemed to parallel. We dug
beneath and along side the root
until we were about 3 feet beneath
the surface. The next two animals
we tried to find were buried in the
bank of the wash. The toads could
not have buried very deep at these
sites because of the coarse gravel
a short distance beneath the
surface. The evidence indicated these
toads had abandoned the burial
sites after we left the area
last time. The fifth animal,