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(july 2 cont.)
We set up camp a short distance W of San Pedro in a cut through a hill. Set 45 traps in a small canyon with considerable mesquite + shade in bottom. Traps set at dusk + after dark. Saw sev. bats feeding in the bottom of the canyon, but wasn't able to get any.
There are numerous mine shafts in this area. Heard a thrasher of some sort; saw Rock Wren, [illegible] a refugee called sparrows I saw bird v heard a flicker. Heard coyote howl during night.
July 8
Catch: Peromyscus sp - 7
1 tail of Perognathus (Chaetodipus) sp.
Bird list for day:
Curve billed Thrasher wvident hummer
Wh. fronted Dove? Rufous cr. Sparrow
Mockingbird Desert Sparrow
Rock Wren Black chinned Sparrow
Mourning Dove Raven
Brown Towhee Cactus Wren (PM)
Bewicks Wren Verdin (PM)
House Finch Scott's Oriole
meadowlark Canyon Wren
Also saw 1 study th. ground squirrel of some sort + 1 Sybillagus.
Set 21 traps along dry brushy + thorny gully above camp; 15 traps along slope with short