Field notes, 1440
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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