Field journal, v4298
Page 57
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Mayhew 1962 Journal 28. June 14 Glamis area, Imperial Co., Calif. We arose at 0630 and ate breakfast. The wind was still blowing, causing the air temp. to be quite slow (20C). We drove to the dunes to try to catch Uma notata. We looked from 0845 to 1045. By then the sand was blowing so hard it made lizard catching nearly impossible. During our stay in the dune area I saw 96 Uma notata, but many of them were immature. We looked for animals along the road as we left, but we saw only one immature Dipsozaurus dorsalis in the dunes about a mile east of the Coachella Canal. We returned home by way of Ocotillo Wells & Warner's Hot Springs. We got the windshield posted between Salton Sea and Ocotillo Wells. I hadn't seen such a sand storm since I left the Sahara. We reached UCR at 1645, after a trip of 562 miles. We caught 73 animals of 11 species, as follows: Crotalus cerastes - 3 (all released) Pituophis catenifer - 2 Lampropeltis getulus - 1 Crotaphytus wrighti - 1 (?) Sceloporus occidentalis - 1 (?)