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Mayhew
1962
July 11
Journal
34.
Palm Springs, Riverside Co., Calif.
Walt Molerby + I left UCR at 0600
to get our monthly lizard sample. We
began looking for lizards at 0700.
The sky was about 50% overcast, and
a 3-5 mph breeze was blowing from the
northwest. We collected in the shallow
wash east of the subdivision on the
south side of Vista Chino ave. again.
This time, however, we walked considerably
further south than before. Naturally
the Uma population in that small
area seemed somewhat reduced. Nevertheless,
we were able to get a reasonable
sample of U. inornata there. There
seemed to be more Dipsosaurus
dorsalis here this time, but this
may have been because we left
this area shortly after Dipsosaurus
emerged last time. We collected until
1010. By then we had captured 42 lizards
of 6 species, as follows:
Phrynosoma m'calli - 3 (2?, 1?)
Crotaphytus wrioligeni - 2 (?)
Callisaurus draconoides - 1 (?)
Urosaurus graciosa - 2 (1?, 1?)
Uma inornata - 13 (7?, 6?) (1? [inn] released)
Dipsosaurus dorsalis - 21 (11?, 7?, [3 in released])
We reached UCR at 1120 after a
trip of 129 miles.