Field journal, v4298
Page 199
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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,