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Cents,
Bleir
1974
Journal
April 10
10 mi. N. was Hole, Madrone Co., Arizona.
They were pregnant. The presence of
40 g. young indicates that this population
first baled about Feb 20-Mar 1 and
if any & & are pregnant it will be
with their second litters of the
year ( if D. microps was a post-
partum estrous). All heavy females
had elongated, pink nipples, although I
couldn't express milk from any.
In the morning the traps held the following:
1 g D. microps ( 4 ad. & , 7 ad. st, 1 juvenile)
2 male females were found; one may have
had a copulatory plug in place, at-67g.
Most males weighed 80-90 g. There were
all released. One female, 67g was dead
of exposure. I autopsied her and found her
to be malignant. The juvenile, wt-
47g, was released. It is interesting
that almost all females were taken in the
12:00 midnight run, whereas almost all
males were captured in the morning run.
Further work needs to be done to
establish the suggestion that the
sexes separate the habitat temporally
as before; D. neviusi (6) were
captured. These at D. microps summer
complexes. I collected some of the shrub