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Crowley
1942
June 4 259 Buena Vista Ave San Francisco City & Calfi
Journal
As a summary of this trip, I ought
say that the major part of the evidence
is negative. Ostensibly a mammal-
collecting trip, the expedition yielded more
in reptiles and in bird notes than in
mammal skins. I put up 32 specimens
of which 14 were Sceloporus, 1 a Coral
King Snake, 1 an alligator lizard, 1 a
Microtus, 1 a chipmunk and the
rest (14) were Peromyscus. The scar-
city of specimens may be due to a num-
ber of factors - inexperience of course,
plus the cold temperature which reduce
the number of mammals probably, plus
the fact that breeding season is still
in progress - hence this is the low time
of year. De. this year's crop of young
will swell the mammal population
which at present is at low ebb due to the
hardships of winter, etc. Peromyscus
maniculatus and boylii are evidently
the 2 most abundant mammals.
we set for. O. truei is less abundant -
I got the only one we girl caught-
in sunnwalt, first time we trap-
ped there. Sceloporus are abundant. Snakes
are still sluggish - not so much in evidence