Field notes, v552
Page 265
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Brylock 1982 Journal 1.6 mi N. Anilcort, Plumas Co., Calif. 14 June Arrived here around 4:30 pm after driving all afternoon from Berkeley (left ~ 11 am). Same locality as before. This time there is much in bloom. The lupine, Truncus (a few trees around the campsite), various wild flowers. Round a foot of new shoots to the Antemaria. The grasses have set seed and form a uniform cover over much of the desert floor โ€” particularly in the area of antemaria cover >50%. Of course, in the dune areas just east of the highway there is little cover. Daytime temperatures are in the 70s w/ occasional high cumulus clouds. Raindrop marks in the sand attest to a recent sprinkle. Set 196 traps, roughly equally split between roadside dunes and antemaria flats and the sloping Antemaria flats east of the highway (below the large Jeffrey pine) 15 June Captures this morning are as follows: Perognathus parvus โ™‚ 6 โ™€ 5 D. ordii ยท2 2 R. panaminticus 7 7 M. megacephalus 4 #5 P. minutulus 10 (total) E. minimus 8 S. heldingi 1 56 / 96 The kangaroo mice have largely dropped young. Only a single embryo set was obtained and the rest (4) all had distended nipple mammae. I noticed in particular that the pectoral mammae,