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LIDICKER 1958 July 4 Broke camp & then jicked up traps. Catch: Peromyscus truei - 8 ; also saw 1 jav. running around in daylight ; saved only 6 adults - these gutted. We also caught another Thamnophis. The gas station at El Salto was out of gas so we looked for Durango on about 1/2 tank; "replenish overdrive" got me in. In Durango we bought supplies & looked up the local representative of our insurance co. to see if we could retrieve anything on a new tire stolen at Mil Dios. No luck - our policy excepted all theft except the whole car. We headed south at 1715. The desert in this area consists of high shrub with little to much grass. At about 15 mi. S Durango the road starts to climb a little; here there is much crevetail, scattered mesquite & the hills are quite rocky. At 2.5 mi. N Nombre de Dios the road goes down into a huge valley where there is a river & a small town. This valley does not look like serranai habitat. At 4.6 mi. S Nombre de Dios the shrubs become well spaced & this might possibly be serranai habitat but there is considerable short grass. 5.6 mi. S Nombre de Dios ( 5 1/2 mi. SE N de D) I shot a Citellas. At 17.8 mi. by rd, from N de Dios we went off on a side road to