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DICKEN
1958
morning). We also made 6 gopher sets (11 traps)
along main rd. (2 3/4 mi, S, 2 1/2 mi, E Scissor Crossing).
Caught a Xantusia around camp & Dick picked up
a Rhynchocheilus. Ran trap lines around camp after
dinner. Saw sev. small bats at dusk.
Sept. 10
Picked up traps; Catch:
Scissor Crossing:
Oryctomyops torridus - 6
Parognathus longimandibris - 15
Parognathus (Chaetodipus) sp. - 1
Paronyctes maniculatus - 11
Dipodomys agilis - 1
Dipodomys merriami - 11 (1 alive)
Composite:
Oryctomyops torridus - 7
Parognathus longimandibris - 5
Neotoma lepida - 1
Parognathus (Chaetodipus) sp. - 4
Dipodomys merriami - 34
Also caught 2 Thomomys bottae & left 2
sets out. Saw 1 Sylvilagus along trapline at
Scissor Crossing. Dick shot 1 Cynomys ludovicianus
about noon. Skinned until about 1700 & then
packed up & headed toward Julian. Picked up 2
remaining gopher sets & had 1 more T. bottae.
Not far from Scissor Crossing the road goes over