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LIDICKER 1958 (July 8 cont.) Shrub, some open area + considerable rock; then we walked on to high hill S + slightly E of San Pedro, the top of which is very windy + open, tundra-like (2 1/4 mi. E Tepozteco). Here we set on trap we set 2 steel traps + 2 rod traps by 2 groups of large burrows which looked like either large ground squirrels or Spectabilis holes without any sound to speak of; we also set 1 muscar spec. on top. Then we set 15 more traps in a line near the top; 1 not steel for Neotoma; 20 traps in Leroy gully near camp; 38 on fairly open slopes below camp - in one area there was practically a meadow of yellow flowers; + 1 rod trap in the cut behind camp. Total traps out 116. Shot 1 Myotis in gully below camp that evening. Heard some goatcender calling just after dark. July 9 Catch: dry gully above camp - Perognathus - 1 Peromyscus - 1 rod trap behind camp - 1 yy. Peromyscus open slopes below camp - Dipodomys merriami - 1 Perognathus - 1 Peromyscus - 1 Leroy gully . Peromyscus - 3 slope with short shrubs (15 traps) - Perognathus - 1