Field notes, v576
Page 101
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May 1 To Mr. W. House They Springs, San Bernardino Co. Calif. But since Opax do live There, I'd better Try one more night's trapping there, since it was a long way out too. The dipid caught weighed 56.5 g., and had created a mess in the trap, with blood, urine, and wet feces all about. When placed in a cage with seeds and blackhush, it began eating seeds, but later ate some blackhush too while I watched. Apparently blackhush is acceptable, at least as a water source, now I'll have to try it as a sole food supply. In the morning I walked south to the slope of the Kingstons. I saw Black-throated Sparrows everywhere about, and a Townsend's Solitaire. I climbed up a gulley to see what sort of Tree covered the North facing slope. They were Puerco firs, quite tall and pale-like; a few large junipers at the lower edge of the puerco belt - about 5500'. No white fir on this mountain. On the way down I caught a Sozebrush Lizard and a Western sk, sk. I almost caught another lizard, but it got away, about 4" s.v. Illus. below right.