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LIDICKER
1959
+ large shot 1. We also saw sev. bats which
might have been Myotis, + sev large - straight
flies which might have been Ephierus or Atragonas.
It rained lightly most of night.
June 29
Got up by 0530. Ran trapline + picked up on:
Apache Plain, etc. Cat'd: on flat (66 trophies +4)
Dysdercus adii -1
Oryctes torridus -1
along canyon wall: 2 Pteroporus sp. + adjacent
traps shot 1/2 way up wall (its 1895 & 1896).
in grass above rim: 1 Rethrotaurus which had
been partially eaten by a whip scorpion.
Also got 1 gopher in gopher nets. Skinned catch.
Miller got 5 Syllidops below camp + I skinned
this. Heavy rain - late afternoon, into evening.
Set 35 traps in brush along levee near camp &
reset 35 traps on canyon wall (novel 1). Reset 2
rest traps in flat set for bugs + set 2 more. Caught
another gopher + skinned it. Heard skulefoot calling
after dark + went out hunting them. Caught 3 Bugs sp.
Others got a total of 4 Scopitopina. Was partly cloudy,
but didn't rain during night from about 2200 on.
June 30
Caught another Bugs sp. in camp. Had nothing in
traps or levee or in flat. Got 2 Pteroporus (lugh? )
along canyon wall. No more gophers. Took up + set which