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L.M. Boyers
1932
Walthams C., 4 1/2 mi. S.E. Priest Valley
1850 ft., Fresno Co., Calif.
December 29, 1932
by shooting it off of a fallen
log in a dry wash. I also got
two more Bacolops insornatus.
While eating breakfast on the
porch I shot a Cargodaeus
mexicanus and another
Farris ludovicianus from
the top of a valley oak at a measured
distance of 55 yds with a 410
shotgun, and a no. 8 shell.
Saw one brush rabbit run
from under a Photinia arbutifolia
down hill thru loose brush, and
wasn't able to secure it. Brush
rabbits and cottontails both
inhabit semi-open brush country
here and also the jack rabbits to a
lesser degree.
A.H. Bonds brought in a Pujalo
fucens and a Pujalo maculatus
This country is covered in
places with shell deposits and T.B.
Gun showed no rib fragments and
vertebrae over 6 inches long and
4 or 5 inches thus, petrified, that
had been picked up on his ranch.