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LIDICKEN
1957
of camp & around nine entrances, but it was very
windy & I saw none. Had dinner after dark.
A pair of Ravens apparently resting on cliffs of
Cerro San Juan above camp. Saw Lance Dave around
camp. Ned shot 2 Broad-billed Hummingbirds,
a Centaurus, a ladder-backed woodpecker, brown
hawker, 2 cactus wrens, etc. Raised my little bit of song
during night.
July 14
Picked up all traps. Catch: Newtorn - 1 (in scat with
hose in mine shaft), Paroquethus - 1, Parompyga
Anglia - 7, Parompyga mendicatus - 4 (1 jun. released),
Parompyga arenica - 1, Peithothorax - 1. Shot a
Lact. & Layena californicus. Skinned catch & the
applied a number of old mines in the area with Dave.
Found a pair of large Parompyga in 1 shaft (shot 1:
th. 2040) & saw several more nests of Parompyga. We
saw no bats or bat sign although some of the mines
we explored were quite intricate. Ned shot a
Syphylus. We had several rain showers around noon.
After a late lunch we packed our gear & headed
back for the valley. About 1/2 mi. E of San Antonio
we noticed a good gravel N-S road. The Rio San
Pedro runs along the W side of San Antonio & it is
bordered by numerous cottonwoods. We turned N at
the R. & followed it back for about 1/2 mile where we
camped in a grove of large cottonwood. Beneath the