Field notes, 1440

Lidicker, William Zander, 1932-
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LIDICKER, WILLIAM Z. California : Misc.Cos., San Diego Co.; Mexico : Chihuahua - Aguascalientes, Baja California , Miscellaneous . October, 1957 - July , 1959. Catalogue Nos. 1394-2218 Lidicker, N. Nos. 19-204 Marler, P. R. Nos. 1-10 Journal
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LIDICKER 1957 Pfeiffer-Big Sur State Ph, Monterey Co, California Oct. 20 1394. ♂ Sorex trowbridgei montereyensis 123-51-14-9 5 mi SE Kern R., 11 mi ENE Bakersfield, Kern Co, California Nov. 29 1395. ♀ Peromyscus maniculatus tests 9 mm. 166-79-21-17 LACT, 2 amb x4mm 171-75-20.5-16 1396. ♂ 4 mi NE Caliente, Kern Co, California Nov. 30 no emb 1397. ♀ Sorex ornatus 104-39-13-8' 1398. ♂ Perognathus californicus ochrus 185'-102-24-11 no emb 1399. ♀ 211-122-25.5-12 11½ mi SE Simmler, Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo Co, Calif. Dec. 1 LACT, no emb 1400. ♀ Dipodomys nitratoides 226+121+35-13 tests 10 mm; SV. 12mm. 1401. ♂ 252-148-36-14 tests 10 mm; SV. 15 mm. 1402. ♂ 248-144-35.5-13 tests 11mm; SV. 13mm. 1403. ♂ 248-145-36.5-14 tests 10 mm; SV. 5mm. 1404. ♂ 234-132-36-13 tests 11 mm; SV. 15mm. 1405. ♂ 262-147-36-14 4 mi NE Caliente, Kern Co, California Nov. 30 1406. ♂ Peromyscus leucopus californicus marilene tests 10mm; SV. 14 mm. 260-143-27.5-25 1407. ♀ no emb, lact. 252-133-27-25 1408. ♀ no emb, late lact. 273-147-28-25.5 scum on tail tip taken in tests 6 mm 1409. ♂ nearby trap boglii rowleyi 133+32+-23-18
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LIDICKER 1957 + 1958 4 mi. NE Caliente, Kern Co., California Nov. 30 1410. ♀ Peromyscus maniculatus boylii no amb. 211-112-22-20 testis 4 mm. 1411. ♂ " " 183+-86+-22.5-19 testes 10 mm. 1412. ♂ Neotoma fuscipes simplex 379-176-37-33 3 mi. S, 1¼ mi. E San Benito, San Benito Co., Calif. Dec. 30 1413. ♀ Peromyscus californicus binoculi no amb. 199-109-25-12.5 testes 11 mm., epid. enlarged 1414. ♂ Dipodomys lemmanni goldmani 320-196-44-18 no emb.; ovaries with c.I. 1415. ♀ " " 299-177-43-17 recent portions of 5 emb. on right side 1416. ♀ Peromyscus maniculatus gambelii 167-72-20-18 testes 9 mm. 1417. ♂ " " 158-68-21-16 6½ mi. S, 4½ mi. E San Benito, San Benito Co., Calif. Dec. 30 1418. ♂ Peromyscus maniculatus gambelii testes 6 mm. 164-71-21-17 inf., rounded 1419. ♀ Neotoma fuscipes perplexa (large wartlike on throat) 404-198-40.5-35 4¾ mi. SE San Juan Bautista, San Benito Co., Calif. Feb. 2, 1958 1420. ♂ Thomomys bottae diabolii testes 14x10 mm.; epid. large quite fat. 242-71-30-9 5½ mi. N Banner, San Felipe Valley, San Diego Co., Calif. March 31 1421. ♀ Peromyscus longimolbris brevicornis testes 5 mm. 137-70-17.5-7 testes 5 mm. 1422. ♂ " " 133-69-18-7.5 testes 4½ mm. 1423. ♂ Dipodomys agilis 241-140-42.5-16 Fimbriae x 14 mm. 1424. ♀ Peromyscus maniculatus 171-74-20-17 testes 10 mm. 1425. ♂ " " 166-73-21-18
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LIDICKER 1958 2/10 mi W. Yaqni Well, Yaqni Well Valley, San Diego Co., Calif. April 1 1426. ♀ Parognathus [illegible] penicillatus angustirostris no ants, ov. min. 189-100-24-9 no ants, ~8 sec. 1427. ♂ " baileyi Duranji 207-115-26-10 1428. ♂ " penicillatus angustirostris text 9 mm. 182-99-23-8 1429. ♂ " spiratus [illegible] text 10 mm. 186-108-21.5-9 1430. ♂ " felleri Jallides text 10 mm. 188-105-23-10 1431. ♂ " " " text 8 mm. 177-103-23-9 text 15 mm. 1432. ♂ Personopus arminus 169+-81+-20.5-18 1433. ♂ Parognathus [illegible] baileyi Duranji text 6.5 mm. 187-103-23.5-9 2¼ mi. S, 3¾ mi. E Agua Caliente, Valleito Valley, San Diego Co., Calif. April 2 1434. ♂ Dipotamys varians text 10 mm. 244-146-39-15 1435. ♂ " text 10 mm. 239-141-38.5-14 ¼ mi. S Jacumba, San Diego Co., California April 3 1436. ♀ Dipotamys agilis cabazonae no ants, last. 276-168-40-17.5 1 mi. W Jacumba, San Diego Co., California April 3 1437. ♂ Dipotamys agilis cabazonae text 10 mm. 291-178-44-17.5 3 mi. NW Jacumba, San Diego Co., California Apr. 3 1438. ♀ Naotoma lepidus last, no comb., but recent parts of 2 288-138-33-29 text 8 mm. 1439. ♂ Personopus estonius 158-79-21-17 text 14 mm. 1440. ♂ " estonius 188-97-21-19
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LIDICKER 1958 Carrizo Canyon, 6.9 mi. S, 3/10 mi. E Mountain Palm Stgo., San Diego Co., Calif. April 4 1441. ♀ Paragnathus longiembrio longi 98+38+18-7 1442. ♂ " spinatus test 7 mm. 156-84-20.5-8.5 " californicus rufescens test 8.5 mm. 1443. ♂ " penicillatus angustirostris test 9 mm. 164-90-22.5-9 1444 ♂ " 162+82+23.5-9 to emb., vulv. swollen 1445 ♀ Dipodolops mariani 229-132-37-135 1446. ♀ Paromopus eremius ?sp. inc. 4 emb x 5 mm, lact. 202-109-21.5-20 test 14 mm. 1447. ♂ " 199-111-20.5-18 1448 ♀ Nesotoma depila 4 emb x 20 mm. 309-143-30-32 test 14 mm. 1449. ♂ Paromopus eremius 200-109-22-18 7 mi. WSW Cuahuitemoor, Chihuahuas June 22 1450. ♀ Paromopus trui 2 emb, scap., to amb. 182-93-22-20.5 test 8 mm. 1451. ♂ Reithrodontomy negalotis 146-73-17-14 test 9 mm. 1452. ♂ " -143-70-17-14 June 23 1453. ♂ Paragnathus hispidus test 5 mm. 144-78-24-11 test 13 mm. 1454. ♂ Sigmodon minimus 239-96-28-18 1455. ♀ " ochrogathus 3 amb x 24 mm. 209-92-25-17 1456. ♂ Reithrodontomy negalotis 172-92-19-15.5 1457. ♀ " 3 amb x 19 mm. 178-97-19-17 test 12 mm. 1458. ♂ Paromopus trui 176-83-21-18 4 amb x 13 mm. 1459. ♀ " 205-107-23-23 no emb. 1460. ♂ " manculatus 176-78-22.5-18 test 17 mm. 1461. ♂ Thomomys bottae 202-52-29-6
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LIDICKER 1958 7 mi. WSW Cua[illegible]tano, Chihuahua, Mexico June 23 1462. ? Thomsonyx botter no end. 196-52-26-6 June 24 1463. ? Parognathus hispidus no end. 188-94-26-13 total 4 km. 1464. ? Baiomyx 100-47-15-11.5 total 20 km. 1465. ? Dryolomys leucogaster 136-47-21-16 15 mi. N Ciudad Camargo, Chihuahua, Mex. June 25 1466. ? Parognathus total 9 km. 182-96-23-8 no end. 1467. ? 178-99-23-7 total 10 km. 1468. ? Dipodomys merriami 242-138-39-13 no end. 1469. ? 245+-141+-39-13 no end. 1470. ? 204+-103+-36-14 total 18 km. 1471. ? Neotoma allgilia 326-140-31-27 1.5 mi. N Boquilla de Concho, 14 mi. SW Cd. Camargo, Chihuahua June 26 1472. ? Parognathus no end. 166-95-21-7.5 total end. 1473. ? Paronychus creminis 173-91-20-17.5 no end, dead; 1474. ? 208-111-20- 1475. ? 194+-99+-22-19.5 total 12 km. 1476. ? Thomsonyx botter 215-65-29.5-7 total 14 km. 1477. ? 217-68-27-6 no end. 1478. ? 205-63-28-6 3 mi. NNW Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mex. June 27 1479. ? Dipodomys spectabilis total 11 km. 357-215-51-17
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LIDICKER 1958 3 mi. NNW Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mex. June 27 1480. σ Dipodomys spectabilis testato 10 mm. 335-197-53-17 3.7 mi. by road S La Cuesta, Durango, Mex. June 28 1481. σ Perognathus parvus testo 8mm. 177-98-23-10 1482. σ " " testato 7 mm. 159-90-23.5-9 1483. σ " " testo 8 mm. 173-98-23-9 1 mi. N Cerro Bozles, 18 mi. N Durango, Durango, Mexico June 28 1484. σ Citellus testo 21 mm. 242-79-31-11 S side Mil Dias, 1 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, Mex. June 29 1485. φ Peromyscus testo 12 mm. 181-90-23-19 1486. φ " " lact., no embryos 198-103-24-25 1487. φ " " lact., 3 placentas 190-100-23.5-22 June 30 1488. σ Peromyscus testo 12 mm. 203-109-23-25 1489. σ " " testo 14 mm. 194-102-23-23.5 1490. σ " " testo 13 mm. 181-92-23-24 1491. σ " " testo 13 mm. 176-90-24-25 1492. σ Entomius testo 19 mm. 241-100-36-21 July 1 1493. φ Peromyscus lact., no embryos 297-108-23.5-24 1494. φ Naotoma testo 5 mm. 204-82-31-23 1495. φ Entomius lact., no embryos 239-93-35-22
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LIDICKER 1958 5 side Mil Dias, 1 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, Mex. July 1 1496. ♀ Eutemius lact, no ands. 239-95-35.5-21 1497 ♀ flycatcher Contopus fortisat vicinity Mil Dias, 1 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, Mex. June 30 (gift from Mexican) tests 5 mm. 203-21-55-42 1498. ♂ Sylirlogus 1/2 mi. NW Mil Dias, 3 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, Mex. July 2 tests 1.5 mm. 102-45-13.5-7.5 tests 1.5 mm. 108-42-13.5-7.5 no ands, lact. 94-27+ -13.5-8 no ands. 221-120-24.5-25 tests 12 mm. 239-133-26-24 tests 4.5 mm. 199-110-25-22 no ands. 174-96-24-22 lact., 2 reprod. ands. x 9 mm. 240+59+-32.5-28 lact, no ands. 628-331-61-32 1507. ♀ Mephitis mephitis n. margarita July 3 tests 6 mm acc. originally decr. 113-42-13.5-8 no ands. 106-41-14-9 5 side Mil Dias, 1 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, Mex. July 3 1510. ♀ Paronyssus lact, no ands. 198-87-23-19.5 no ands. 239-101-27-22 no ands. 230-111-26.5-23 tests 9 mm. 230+13+-65-41 head + skull only
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LIDICKER 1958 1 mi NNW Mil Dias, 2 mi NW El Salto, Durango, Mex July 3 1514. ♀ Citellus variegatus no ends 467+174-62-26 2 mi. NE El Salto, Durango, Mex. July 4 1515. ♂ Perognathus test. 14 mm.) 211-108-25-25- 1516. ♂ " 194-97-23-24.5 1517. ♂ " test. 14 mm. 190-93-22.5-24 lact., 4 emb. x14 mm. 1518. ♀ " 159+-58+22.5=23.5 1519. ♂ " test. 13 mm) 203-105-24-24 5½ mi. SE Nombre de Dios, Durango, Mex. July 4 1520. ♂ Citellus test. 22 mm. 228-68-34-11 4½ mi. E Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mex July 6 1521. ♀ Perognathus no ends; no ing. thy. 46 109-66-16-6 1522. ♂ " test. 4 mm. 55 1523. ♂ " 96-42-15.5 test. 6 mm. 1524. ♂ " test. 6 mm. 107-47-15-6 Skull only 112-49-15.5=6 1525. ♀ Dipodomys merriami no ends; ing thy. 214+-118+-38-13 1526. ♀ " no ends 237-137-38-14 1527. ♂ " test. 6 mm. 245-135-39-14 1528. ♀ " 2 emb x14 mm. 1529. ♂ Peromyscus merriamius test. 10 mm 751-147-39-14 155-64-21-16 July 7 1530. ♀ Perognathus no ends. 103-49-16.5-6 1531. ♂ " test. 3 mm. Skull only 90+-33+-16.5-
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DIDILKER 1958 4 1/2 mi. E Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mex July 7 1532. ♀ Dipodomys merriami 2 adults x 3 mm. 245-148-39.5-14 1533. ♂ " " total 5 mm. 217-124-38.5-13 1534. ♀ " " no adult. 219-130-39-15. 1535. ♀ " " no adult. 249-150-38-13 1536. ♂ " spectabilis total 10 mm. 330-191-52-17 1537. ♂ Citellus Topazele total 20 mm. 232-70-35-11 2 mi. E Fresnillo, .2 mi. S, 11 3/4 mi. E Rincón de Romo, Agac. July 8 1538. ♀ Peromyscus total 9 mm. no adult 20.5 167-89-17 1539. ♂ " total 12 mm. 180-96-21-17.5 1540. ♂ " 185-97-22-19 1541. ♀ " 2 adults x 6 mm. 191-102-22-18 1542. ♀ Myotis: Topazele 88-41-8-14 2 1/4 mi. E Fresnillo, .2 mi. S, 12 mi. E Rincón de Romo, Agac. July 9 1543. ♀ Dipodomys ornatus total, 1 skull x 15 mm. no adult. 261-161-40.5-14 1544. ♀ Peromyscus Skull only Topazele 190-95-22- 2 mi. E Fresnillo, .2 mi. S, 11 3/4 mi. E. Rincón de Romo, Agac. July 9 1545. ♀ Peromyscus total 7 mm. lack, no adult. 180-99-21.5-8 1546. ♂ " 2 adults. 184-108-23.5-9 1547. ♀ " 171-102-23.5-8 1548. ♂ Dipodomys merriami total 5 mm. 244-152-39-13 1549. ♂ Peromyscus total 11 mm. 162+68+-23-22 1550. ♂ " total 10 mm. 184-96-21-18
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LIDICKER 1958 Tepezala 2 mi. & [illegible] 3/10 mi. S, 11 3/4 mi. E Rincon de Romo, Agoc. July 9 1551. ♀ Personipes no skull. 186-97-23-21 Mine close San Pedro de Colbre, 2/10 mi. S, 12 mi. & Rincon de Romoz, Agoc. July 9 1552. ♂ Corynorhinos Tepezala Tails 5 mm. 103-47-11-36.5- 2 mi. & [illegible], 2/10 mi. S, 11 3/4 mi. E Rincon de Romo, Agoc. Mex. July 10 1553. ♂ Reithrodontomy Tails 7 mm. 133-69-16.5-13 1554 ♂ Perognathus Tails 6 mm. 190-92-22-7.5 1555. ♀ " Tepezala 2 1/4 mi. & [illegible], 2/10 mi. S, 12 mi. E Rincon de Romo, Agoc. Mex. July 10 1556. ♂ Perognathus Tails 7 mm. 177-99-22.5-8 no skull 1557 ♀ " 175-96-22.5-8 + PL crns. 1558. ♀ " 172-91-22-8 Tails 8 mm. 1559 ♂ " 191+85+23-8 no skull 1560. ♀ " 174-95-22-8.5 1561. ♂ " Skull only 181-100-23-7.5 Tails 11 mm. 1562. ♂ Promopus 199-106-21-18 Tails 11 mm. 1563. ♂ " 195-107-22-19.5 Tails 15 mm. 1564. ♂ Neotoma Tepezala 2 mi. & [illegible], 2/10 mi. S, 11 3/4 mi. E Rincon de Romo, Agoc. July 10 1565. ♀ Promopus Tails 10 mm. 199-104-22-89
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LIDICKER 1958 \frac{1}{3} mi. S, \frac{1}{4} mi. E Rincon de Romero, Azooc. Mex. July 11 1566. & Perozynathos 219-54-16.5-6.5 1567. & " 209-51-16-6 1568. ? Ophiti; macrum skull only (pick up from decayed carcass) 1569. & Melogealia asiatica - wh.-w. dove. 1570 & -morning dove July 12 1571. & Perozynathos 118-55-16.5-6.5 July 11 1572. & Centurus golden fr. wolf chiv. \frac{1}{3} mi. NW Ciudad de los Ninos, 7 mi. WSW Aguacaliente, Azooc. July 13 1573. & Perozynathos text 9 mm. 185-102-22.5-8 1574 & " to each. 173-100-21.5-8 1575 & i to each. 169-84-21.5-8 text 6 mm. 1576. & " 112-51-15.5-6 to each. 1577. & " skull only 179-103--- 1 and x 12 mm + 2 roots. 1578. & Reithrodontomys 163-92-19-14 branches full of green leaves; text 10 mm 1579. & Dipodomys ornatus 285-181-41.5-15 \frac{5}{2} mi. W Calerillo, Aguacaliente, Mex. July 14 1580. & Perozynathos text 7 mm. 186-109-22-9.5 text 8 mm. 1581. & " 191-111-23-9 text 9 mm. 1582. & " 186-109-22.5-8 text 8 mm, 1583. & i 187-107-23-8.5 text 7.5 mm. 1584. & Perozynus maniculatus SKULL ONLY (37-59-20-17)
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LIDICKER 1958 5 1/2 mi. W Calivillo, Agac, Mex. July 14 1585. & Diploony ornatus total 12 mm. 302-189-44-19 1 km S La Labor, 9 mi by road N Calivillo, Agac, Mex. July 15 1586. ? Perognathus no antl. 172-98-21.5-8 1587. ? no antl. 160-89-20-8 1588. ? no antl. 169-97-21.5-7.5 total 30 mm. 1589. & Perognemus no antl. 206-112-21-18 1590. ? total 9 mm. 198-111-21-18 1591. ? Perognathus no antl. 103-45-16-5.5 July 16 1592. & Perognathus total 7 mm. 115-54-16.5-6 1593. ? no antl. 166-96-22.5-8 total 8 mm. 1594. ? 154+-77+-22-8 1595. ? Heteromys no antl. 135+-22+-32-15.5 2 mi N Calivillo, Aguascalientes, Mex. July 17 1596. & Perognathus total 6 mm. 131+-56+-22.5-8 1597 ? no antl. SKULL ONLY 165-91-21-- total 12 mm. 1598. & Diploony ornatus 284-178-41.5-15 1599. ? Neotoma albigula lact, 1 antl X8mm. 338-148-38-31 5 mi by road N Calivillo, Agac, Mex. July 16 1600. ? Citellus variegatus no antl. 479-204-60-27
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DICKER 1958 2 mi. N Calvillo, Aguascalientes, Mex. Jul 17 1601 ♀ Lepus californicus 2005, 3 ant x 102 mm. 575-76-115-142 Jul 18 1602. ♀ Perognathus no ants 193-102-22.5-8 1603. ♂ " no ants 185-104-23-8.5 1604. ♀ Paromyscus difficilis no ants 233-135-28-22 -tail 10 mm. 1605. ♂ Dipodomys ornatus 266-165-40-14 Lact, no ants 1606. ♀ Neotoma albigula 348-162-39-31 4 mi. E state border 8 mi. SW Calvillo, Aguascalientes, Mex. Jul 19 1607. ♀ Perognathus no ants 171-100-21.5<8 1608. ♀ Paromyscus no ants, lact. 202-113-20-18 1609. ♂ " no ants 211-117-21-19 -tail 10 mm. 1610. ♂ " no ants 1864-99+21.5-18 1611. ♀ Liomys 246-128-31-16 Jul 20 1612. ♂ Perognathus total 4 mm. 177-101-21.5-8 1613. ♂ " no ants 164-89-21-8 1614. ♀ " no ants 168-103-21.5-7.5 -tail 8 mm. 1615. ♂ 184-103-23-8.5 1616. ♀ Liomys lots of germinating seeds in pockets no ants 248-130-31-16 -tail 23 mm. 1617. ♂ " no ants 280-146-32-17 Venaverraz, 13 mi. W Aguascalientes, Agoc, Mex. Jul 21 1618. ♀ Reithrodontomys no ants, lact. 199-104-18.5-14.5 1619. ♂ Mus musculus 160-88-18.5-14.
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LIDICKER 1958 Venavero, 13 mi. W. Aguascalientes, Agca., Mex. July 21 1620. ♂ Pipilo fusca total 12 mm. total 40 mm. 1621. ♂ Sylviidae 356-37-82-69 1622. ♀ Pipilo fusca overy 8 mm. TO 196 July 22 1623. ♂ Peromyscus truei total 11 mm. 198-109-22.5-22.5 1624. ♂ Sylviidae total 9 mm. 290-30-69-54 1625. ♂ total 42 mm., up in tree. 390-36-92-71 1626. ♂ Citellus variegatus total 30 mm. 521-225-62-28 Ojenta, 11 mi. 1mi.NE Viudas de SE Rincon de Romos, Agca., Mex. July 23 3 anh x 10 mm. 1627. ♂ Perognathus 197-100-23-8 total 5 mm. 1628. ♂ " 174-99-23-9 3 anh x 12 mm. 1629. ♀ 190-106-23-8.5 total 19 mm. 1630. ♂ Peromyscus 242-130-26-22 no anh, lect. 1631. ♀ Citellus 239-70-34-9 total 22 mm. 1632. ♂ " 246-73-34-10 no anh 1633. ♀ " yg. #1631 185-62-32-10 4¼ mi.S, 4⅓ mi.E San Juan Bautista, San Benito Co., Calif. Feb. 2 (died in captivity on Aug.17) total 9 mm. 1634. ♂ Dipodomys venustus 262+-135+-49-21 4 mi. N, 3½ mi. W Truchavens, 2¼ mi.NW Kane Spring, Imperial Co., Calif. Sept. 9 1635. ♂ Perognathus total 4 mm. 1618 183-101-24-9 no anh, 4 mt. skins. 1636. ♀ " 190-106-24-8
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LIDICKER 1958 4 mi. N, 4\frac{1}{2} mi. W Truckhaven, 2\frac{1}{2} mi. NW Kane Spring, Imperial Co., Calif. Sept. 9 1637. ♀ Parosmiths 12.6 g. 172-94 -24-8 1638. ♂ " tails 4 mm. 11.8 g. 189-111 -23-10 1639. ♂ " tail 3mm. 14.2 g. 170+ -89+ -24-10 no tails, 2 tail 2mm. 1640 ♀ Dipolony verrani 31.9 g. 246-148-38-14 1641. ♀ " tails 2+ nd 2cm. 39.9 g. 253-148 -38-13 no tails. 1642 ♀ " 27.5 g. 235-142-36-14 1643 ♂ " tails 4 mm. 26.6 g. 244-149-37-14 4\frac{1}{2} mi. N, 3 mi. W Kane Springs, Imperial Co., Calif. Sept. 9 18.8g. no tails. 1644 ♀ Parompen moniculatus 18.8 g. 174-81 -21-18 Scissors Crossing, Earthquake Valley, San Diego Co. Calif. Sept. 10 1645. ♂ Parosmiths longirostris no tails 2.5 mm. 135-70 -19.5-7.5 1646. ♂ " tails 2.5mm. 7.6 g. 139-76 -19-7 1647. ♀ " 7.4 g. 138-74 -19-7 1648. ♂ " tails 2.5 mm. 8.0 g. 140-77-19.5-7 1649 ♂ " tails 2.5 mm. 8.1 g. 142-75-19-7 no tails 1650. ♀ " 8.0 g. 135-71-19-7 no tails 1651. ♀ Dipolony verrani 40.5g. 25C-153-38-14 1652. ♀ " tails 5 mm. 29.0 g. (242-147)-38.5-13 no tails. 1653. ♂ " 32.7 g. 248-152-39-14 no tails 1654. ♀ " 39.9 g. 243-143-37-13 1655. ♂ " tails 4 mm. 43.3g. 250-147)-39-14 tails 10 mm. 1656. ♂ " 47.9 g. 247-140-38-13
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LICKER 1958 3/4 mi. S, 2 1/4 mi. E. Scissors Crossing, Earthquake Valley, San Diego Co. Calif. Sept. 10 1657. ♂ Dipodomys harrisi 42.2 g. 267-166-41-14 tests 4.5 mm. 1658. ♂ .. .. 34.1 g. 239-143-37-14 no and. 1659. ♀ .. .. 46.6 g. 248-144-38-13 no ands. 1660. ♂ .. .. 32.7 g. 241-143-37-13 tests 5 mm. 1661. ♂ .. .. 39.8 g. 252-155-40-15 tests 10 mm. 1662. ♂ .. .. 43.9 g. 241-142-38-13 no ands. 1663. ♂ .. .. 40.4 g. 246-146-37-13.5 no ands. 1664. ♀ .. .. 39.3 g. 252-148-39-14 tests 4.5 mm. 1665. ♂ .. .. 37.0 g. 246-149-38-13 no ands. 1666. ♀ .. .. 37.0 g. 236-139-37-14 1667. ♀ .. .. 30.0 g. 248-148-37-13 2 3/4 mi. S, 2 1/2 mi. E Scissors Crossing, Earthquake Valley San Diego Co. Calif. Sept. 10 tests 8 mm. 1668. ♂ Thomomys bottleri 113.9 g. 231-79-27-6 Scissors Crossing, Earthquake Valley, San Diego Co. Calif. Sept. 10 tests 5 mm. 1669. ♂ Onychomys torridus 20.1 g. 151-53-20.5-18 tests 5.5 mm. 1670. ♂ .. .. 20.0 g. 146-53-20-18 3 1/4 mi. S, 2 1/4 mi. E Scissors Crossing, Earthquake Valley, San Diego Co. Calif. Sept. 10 no ands. 1671. ♀ Neotoma lepida 116.2 g. 317-154-32-30.5 tests 2.5 mm. 1672. ♂ Paragnathus longimolus 6.1g. 116-55-19-7 Rancliff Campground, 2 1/4 mi. N Buckman Springs San Diego Co. Calif. Sept. 11 no ands. 1673. ♀ Paragnathus 16.7 g. 192-110-26.5-12
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{ "text": "LIDICKER\n1958\n\nSand Thing Valley, 4625+ ft., San Diego Co., California\nSept. 12\n1674 ? Dipotomys azilis\n68.1g. 307-188-43-18\ntesta 4.5 mm.\n1675 ? \"\n59.5 g. 277-167-43.5-17\ntesta 4 mm.\n1676 ? \"\n51.8g. 278-171-41-17\ntesta 10 mm.\n1677 ? Paromys marimulatus\n25.6 g. 173-78-22-19.5\ntesta 10 mm.\n1678 ? \"\n21.7g. 163-74-22-19\ntesta 10 mm.\n1679 ? \"\n22.0 g. 167-75-22-18.5\ntesta 10 mm.\n1680 ? \"\n21.0 g. 170-78-22-18.5\n1691 ? \"\n25.6g. 170-73-22-19\ntesta 7 mm.\n1682 ? Thompson, Lottar\n83.4 g. 190-59-26.5-5.5\n\n3/4 mi. N Manzanita, 3600+ ft., McCain Valley, San Diego Co., Calif.\nSept. 13\n1683 ? Dipotomys azilis\n63.0g. 277-165-41-16\ntesta 6.5 mm.\n3 ambs. x 23 mm.\n1684 ? \"\n74.6 g. 303-185-43.5-16\nno ambs.\n1685 ? \"\n31.7g. 220-126-40-14\ntesta 5 mm.\n1686 ? Paromys\n22.9 g. 218-128-28-13\ntesta 5 mm.\n1687 ? \"\n19.6g. 208-124-26-14\ntesta 5 mm.\n1688 ? Paromys\n21.6 g. 190-103-25-22.5\nno ambs. small.\n1689 f Neotoma lepida\n106.4g. 297-143-33-31\nno ambs.\n1690 ? Dipotomys azilis\n38.7 g. 266-164-42-16\ntesta 11 mm.\n1691 ? Paromys marimulatus\n21.0 g. 168-79-21.5-20\n\n1/4 mi N, 1/3 mi E Aguanga, 2300+ Riverside Co., Calif.\nSept. 14\nno ambs.\n1692 f Paromys\n19.6 g. 201-116-25-10\nno ambs.\n1693 ? \"\n34.7g. 208-111-26-10\nno ambs.\n1694.\n21.5 g. 203-113-25.5-10\n``` ```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)```(1)```json(1)``` [TRANSCRIPTION_TRUNCATED_DUE_TO_LOOP]
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LIDICKER 1958 \n1/4 mi. N, 1/3 mi. E Aguanga, 2300+ ft., Riverside Co., Calif. Sept. 14 1695 ♂ Perognathus 22.5 g. 193-104-24-10 no ends 1696 ♀ Dijeolomys variami 40.0 g. 238-139-36-13 nd ends. 1697 ♀ ", " 24.5 g. 218-131-36-12 tails 4 mm. 1698 ♂ Perognathus 23.4 g. 209-120-25-10 taila 3 mm. 1699 ♂ ", " 27.5 g. 195-107-24-9 tails 4 mm. 1700 ♂ ", " 27.4 g. 206-114-25-10 no ends 1701 ♀ ", " 26.0 g. 209-115-25.5-10 no end. 1702 ♀ ", " 23.3 g. 211-117-25-10 tails 3 mm. 1703 ♂ ", " 25.7 g. 213-120-26-9.5- nd ends 1704 ♀ Dijeolomys variami 36.7 g. 235-139-37.5-12 tails 5 mm. 1705 ♂ ", " 42.1 g. 247-141-38-13 nd ends 1706 ♀ ", " 35.0 g. 238-140-39-12 no ends 1707 ♀ ", agilis 28.5 g. 227-134-40-14 tails 10 mm. 1708 ♂ ", variami 47.0 g. 243-141-38.5-13 tails 4 mm. 1709 ♂ ", " 25.1 g. 214-128-37-12 no ends 1710 ♀ ", " 43.5 g. 255-149-38-13 no ends. 1711 ♂ ", " 36.6 g. 224-128-35.5-13 38.7 tails 5 mm. 1712 ♂ ", " 49.4 g. 235-137-37.5-13 tails 6 mm. 1713 ♂ ", agilis 45.4 g. 253-152-42-14 tails 4.5 mm. 1714 ♂ ", agilis 56.2 g. 283-172-42-17 1/4 mi. ENE Aguanga, 2050+ ft., Riverside Co., Calif. Sept. 14 tails 9 mm. 1715 ♂ Dijeolomys variami 48.4 g. 250-142-38-13 tails 3 mm. 1716 ♂ ", " 40.6 g. 252-150-38-14 last in ends. 1717 ♀ ", " 35.2 g. 229-140-35-12
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LIDICKER 1958 \frac{1}{4} mi. ENE Aguranga, 2050 ft., Riverside Co., Calif. Sept. 14 1718. ♀ Diplostomy harami no comb. 40.2 g 347-151-37-13 1719. ♀ " " 35.4g 231-139-36.5-13 1720. ♀ " " 41.0 g 261-160-38-14 no comb. 1721. ♀ " agilis 63.15g 290-179-43-18 1722. ♀ " " 62.0 g 281-167-41.5-17 "comb. 1723. ♀ " " 62.9g 295-180-42-17.5 1 mi. SE Aguranga, 2150 ft., Riverside Co., Calif. Sept. 14 1724 ♀ Diplostomy harami 2 combs x 27 mm. 50.7 g 249-145-37-13 1725. ♀ " " 38.8 g 240-141-37-13 no comb. 1726. ♀ " " 37.8g. 241-142-37.5-13 comb. 5 mm. 1727. ♀ " " 30.0g. 226-132-36.5-12 no comb. 1728. ♀ " " 37.8 g. 232-143-37-13 combs 9 mm. 1729. ♀ " " 47.2g. 253-149-38.5-14 no comb. 1730. ♀ " " 39.1g. 234-136-36.5-13 no comb. 1731. ♀ " " 22.0 g 209-125-35-12 comb. 4.5 mm. 1732. ♀ " " 27.2g. 221-135-37-12 no comb. 1733. ♀ " " 41.9 g. 245-141-38.5-13.5 comb. 5 mm. 1734. ♀ " " 34.5 g. -147-38-13 combs 11 mm. 1735. ♀ " " 48.3 g. 259-152-39.5-13 no comb. 1736. ♀ " " 29.7g. 227-133-36.5-13 comb. 4.5 mm. 1737. ♀ " " 23.4 g. 209-121-36.5-12 no comb. 1738. ♀ " agilis 48.5g. 281-172-41-15
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LICKER 1958 + 1959 3 mi S, 1/2 mi E San Benito, San Benito Co, California Dec 30, 1957 (died in captivity Sept 23, 1958) texts 11 mm. 1739. ? Diphidyma leonardi 302-192-45.5-15.5 3 1/2 mi N Manganita, 3600 +/- ft, McCain Valley, San Diego Co, Calif. Sept 17 (killed Sept 26) 1740. ? Pterophorus longipennis interstitialis 675. 62+-6+-19-7 9 mi W Junction, Kimble Co, Texas Oct 26 texts 2 1/8 mm. 1741. ? Prionyx lotor DOR 793-220-113-62 Brooks Island (N end), Contra Costa Co, California March 1, 1959 texts desc. 9.5 x 6 mm. 1742. ? Microtus californicus 58.4 g. 181-51-22-16 March 27 1743. Thamnophis slegens 13 mi W, 1 mi N Buerroosa, Baja California del Norte, Mex. March 31 texts desc., 7 1/2 mm. 1744. ? Rethrodontomyia longicandus 132+-60+-17.5-13 headless mand, look no mt, but 1745. ? " 148-76-19-14 (slant) texts desc., 11 1/2 mm. 1746. ? Diphidyma cymbialis simularis 291-190-42-18 texts 4 1/2 mm. 1747. ? " 236-132-41-15 highly large, not clearly no head, no dries 1748. ? Thamnophis notitia hughensis 209-56-27-6 sl. but Gordo x 15 mm. 1749. ? Pteropera minutula gealeti 171-78-21.5-18 texts desc., 13 mm. 1750. ? " 175-78-22-19 texts desc., 10 mm. 1751. ? " 158-66-20.5-17 2 mi N Atascadero, San Luis Obispo Co, Calif. March 28 1752. Buteo larvatus
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LIDICKER 1959 13 mi. W, 1 mi. N Rumorosa, Baja California del Norte, Mex. March 31 1753. ♀ Difodomp agilis similis 280-171-43-17 no mb 1754. ♀ Thononyma Notte majica 188-57-26-5 31 mi. N, 5½ mi. W San Felipe, Baja Calif del Norte, Mex. April 1 1755. Uma Cellocaurus 1756. 1757 3 mi. SSW San Felipe, Baja California del Norte, Mexico April 1 1758. Uma Cellocaurus 1759. Crandisforma April 2 1760. ♀ Pinguithus arenarius albescens W amb virgin 156-87-23-7 tests 3.5 mm. 1761. ♂ " Pancillatus angustirostris 168-90-23-7.5 no emb. 1762. ♀ " ofinator spinatus 172-160-22-8.5 1763. ♀ " Pancillatus angustirostris no emb, virgin 175-95-23.5-8 tests dark, 8 mm. 1764. ♂ " " 191-105-24-9 tests dark, 8 mm. 1765. ♂ " " 190-104-24-8.5 tests dense, 10 mm. 1766. ♂ Difodomp inericanus no amb, 2#s each 265-159-40.5-13 1767. ♀ " " 256-154-37.5-13.5 no emb. 1768. ♀ " " 236-140-38-14 no amb, virgin 1769. ♀ " " 244-146-38-13 tests dark, 10 mm. 1770. ♂ " " 240-138-36.5-14 tests dark, 8.0 mm. 1771. ♂ " " 250-147-38-14
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LIBICKER 1959 3 mi. SSW San Felipe, Baja California del Norte, Mexico April 2 1772. ♂ Dipolony hermani tails 8 5 mm. 239-138-37.5-13 no ands, 4 pl. scars 243-141-38-13 no ands 1773. ♀ ' ' 337-201-52-17.5 tails 6mm, 7 mm. 349-209-55-18 1774. ♂ ' Deserti Tails 8 in. 340-201-56-18 1775. ♂ ' ' 1776. ♂ ' ' 1777. Uta 1778. ' ' 31 mi. N, 7 mi. W San Felipe, Baja California del Norte, Mex. April 3 1779. ♀ Dipolony hermani tails 7.5 mm, not disc. 246-147-38.5-14 no ands 1780. ♂ ' ' 247-150-37-14 tails 8 in., off. not disc. 1781. ♂ ' ' 237-142-39.5-14 tails 6 mm, not disc. 1782. ♂ ' ' 245-144-38.5-15 tails disc., 8.5 mm. 238-140-37-14.5 1783. ♂ ' Drill furqaria (rosan) tails less 9mm. 1784. ♂ ' in pouch 244-144-38-15 no ands, 2 pl. scars. 1785. ♀ ' ' 240-144-37-14 no ands, 4 pl. scars. 1786. ♀ ' ' 240-138-37-14 1787. 1 mi. SE Wynola, San Diego Co., Calif. April 4 1788. ♂ Citellus beckyi multipes 6+ endors. torn, enlarged mammarys. DOR 444-160-51-25 Brooke Island (Sand), Contra Costa Co., Calif. April 12 1789. Derbontus caeruleus
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LIDICKER 1959 Brooks Island, Contra Costa Co., California April 26 1790. Thamnothis from nr. S. end May 2 1791. " from NW beach May 9 1792. " from NW beach 3 mi. NW Encinillas, E side Sierra Santa Clara, Chihuahua, Mex June 14 1793.♀ Citellus variegatus 630.3 g. nipple large, round, & pl. ears. 494-202-61-25 Cañon del Alamo, 7300', Sierra del Nido, Chihuahua, Mexico June 15 1794.♀ Peromyscus trans bygii SKULL ONLY 3 tmds x 4 mm. 189-87-21-- 1795.♀ Myiarchus cineraceus 24.8 g. ad. 1796.♀ Sialia mexicana 28.0 g. al. brood first (A.H.Miller) testis 8mm., 13 mm. 1797.♂ Entomias dorsalis 58.3 g (Dave Taylor) 228-96-35-18 tmds x 37 mm, 1st horn 2d.-+ msc. 1798.♀ Lyro gaillardi 290g 599-62-134-121 1799.♂ Thompson 85.8 g. tmds 13 mm. 211-63-27-5 June 16 testis 4 mm. 1800.♂ Peromyscus trans bygii 23.9 g. 186-97-23-22 testis 11 mm. 1801.♂ " 24.4 g. 189-98-23-22 tmds x 19 mm. 1802.♀ Neotoma alligula 171.9 g. 313-125-32-27 4 fro. nipple fnd. no scns, 1st row in m. horn 1803.♀ Thompson 68.3 g. 181-49-25.5-4 testis 14 mm. 1804.♂ " 83.7g. 199-55-27-5.5 tmds x 19 mm. 1805.♂ Neotoma alligula 160.3 g. 332-149-34-28 no scns. (A.H.MILLER) 1806.♀ Entomias dorsalis 78.09. 228-98-35-20
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L.DICKER 1959 \nCañon del Alero, 7300 ft., Sierra del Nido, Chihuahua, Mexico \nJune 17 1807. \u2642 Diplostomys ordii 54.4 g. tails 12 mm. 254-141-38.5-15 4 mm x 6 mm. 1808. \u2640 Peromyscus boylii 26.8 g. 204-103-23-23 tails 13 mm. 1809. \u2642 ",, 23.9 g. 194-102-23-23 tails 13 mm. 1810. \u2642 Tarsius migratorius ad. 74.4 g. 1811. \u2642 Progne subis ad. 48.9 g. tails 12 mm. 1812. \u2642 ",, ad. 52.2 g. tails 15 mm. niger praecox 1813. \u2642 Tachycineta thalassina ad 16.4 g. tails 11 mm (A.S.LEOOLLO) no ends, back. 1814. \u2640 Citellus spilozone 120.4 g. 220-62-32-10 (G.BAYAN) 1 end x 11.5 mm. 1815. \u2640 Myotis lucifugus 10.0 g. 95-34-10-15 \nJune 18 no ends, not virgin 1816. \u2640 Diplostomys ordii 50.8 g. 239-130-38.5-13.5 \nJune 17 Hyks armicolor 1817. hybrid (Lima yellow on ventral side) + lowa albino) \nJune 18 1818. \u2642 Caprimulgus vociferous ad. tails 13 mm. 1819. \u2642 Contopus rickardsonii ad. tails 7.5 mm. tails 42 mm. 1820. \u2642 Syiringerus floridanus 1113.5 g. 442-51-102-73 tails 15 mm., locc. 1821. \u2642 Eutamia dorzalis 59.2 g. 206+-97+-33-14 1822. Scotornis (torquatus) psinaethi \nJune 19 no ends, virgin 1823. \u2640 Diplostomys ordii 49.5 g. 233+-124+-39-13 no ends, fawn. 1824. \u2640 ",, 48.3 g. 243-149-39-13 tails 15 mm., locc. 1825. \u2642 Eutamia dorzalis 65.3g. 217-83-34.5-20.5 1 end x 16 mm, both cl. (stoma) 1826. \u2640 Neotoma 162.9 g. 346-158-33.5-2.8 (topo)
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LIDICKER 1959 Cañon del Alamo, 7300', Sierra del Nido, Chilchabua, Mexico June 19 1827. ♀ Erithizon fulvifrons 7.7 g. tails 7.5 mm. ad Eurytomus 2.5 mm. 1828. ♀ Tetrione mlaroccephalus (Edl.-keed Zoolled) 52.1 g. cl. brood patch rems, last. 1829. ♂ Syphilago floridaus 1078.5 g. 397-38-96-73 1 ant. x 15 mm. 1830. ♀ E fterius fuscae 16.8 g. 125'47-12-18' June 20 1831. ♂ Railhroluntorps 8.1 g. tails 7 mm. 139-71-16.5-14 1832. ♀ Pervygeae voglii 25.3 g. -bales 13 mm. 138+40+21.5-18 tails 14 mm. 1833. ♂ 23.4 g. 202-101-22-18 no ants. 1834. ♀ Peromygus 34.8 g. 221-115-25-20 tails 12+. 1835. ♂ 31.8 g. 192+87+25-21.5' tails 14 mm. 1836. ♂ 24.0 g. tails 12 mm. 180+78+22-22 1837. ♂ 19.7 g. 139+42+21.5-21 1838. ♀ Turdus ingectorius ad. 69.7 g. G.ar. 4 mm. bird patch tails 21 mm. 1839. ♂ Neotone mexican 183.5 g. 341-146-34-29 no ants, parts 1840. ♀ 127.4 g. 311-132-33-28' June 21 1841. ♂ Railhrolontorpa 9.1g. tails 8 mm. 150-80-17.5-15- 1842. ♀ Peromyscus voglii 23.5 g. tails 13 mm. 197+75+21.5-19 3 ants x 9 mm. 1843. ♂ 26.5 g. 208-106-23.5-22.5 no ants, recent patch 1844. ♀ 26.7 g. 214-108-24-23 tails 46 mm. 1845.♂ Syphilago floridaus 1179.4g. 438-38-105-77 Cañon del Alamo, 7000 ft. Sierra del Nido, Chilchabua, Mexico June 21 1846. ♂ Erinosphila alpestris 249.5. ad. tails 9mm
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LIDICKER 1959 Cañon del Alamo, 7300 ft., Sierra del Nido, Chihuahua, Mexico June 22 1847. Sceloporus jarrovi 1848 ♀ Thyomantis lewisi♀ jn. or. jn. brood futel 9.8 g. 1849 ♀ Cyphtonyx montezumae ag.fell = 17 mm., 204.4 g. 1850 ♂ Newtonia alligula 172.4 g. 339 - 152 - 34.5 - 27 1851 ♀ " " metricave 186.6 g. 340 - 149 - 32 - 30 1852 ♂ " " 223.4 g. 363 - 152 - 33.5 - 30 1853 ♀ Lepus geillardi (A.H.MILLER) 2825 g. 7 June 23 1854 ♂ Newtonia alligula 150.5 g. 307 - 136 - 35 - 30 1855 ♀ " " 216.1 g. 293 + - 99 + - 34.5 - 30.5 1856 ♀ Eutamias dorsalis 75.3 g. 242 - 102 - 36 - 21 (D. TAYLOR) 1857 ♂ Ornyctonyx 22.8 g. 150 - 46 - 2 (-1) mod. fat. 1858 ♂ Signoton minimus 94.3g 244 - 92 - 27.5 - 18 June 24 1859 ♂ Promyopias longii 22.3 g. 1860 ♀ Canyon Wren Catherpes mexicanus jn. or. caught by settlers (A.H.MILLER) 1861 ♂ Promyopias A.H. #11098 13.5 g. 1862 ♂ Ptilia fusca ad 45.6 g. June 25 1864 ♂ Promyopias longii 28.2 g. mod. fat 1865 ♀ Signoton minimus 57.5 g. 1865 ♂ " " 82.8g. Cañon del Alamo, 7000', Sierra del Nido, Chihuahua, Mex. June 25
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LIDICKEN 1959 \nCañon del Aleman, 7300 ft., Sierra del Nido, Chihuahua, Mexico \njune 24 1866. ♀ Eptesicus fuscus 18.9 g. 1 cord x 60 mm - partial 122-49 - 13-18 \njune 25 1867. ♂ Citellus norvegicus 475.3 g. total 24 mm., 2doc. 436 - 180 - 59-23 \nCañon del Aleman, 7000 ft., Sierra del Nido, Chihuahua \njune 25 1868. Sceloporus ochleris no skin, furless 1869 ♀ Thonomys- 95.2 g. total 9 mm. 208-60 - 27-5 1870 ♂ " 92.7 g. 205-60-28-6 no skin 1871 ♀ Sigmodon minimus 58.6 g. 224-88-27-14 \nCañon del Aleman, 7300 ft., Sierra del Nido, Chihuahua \njune 26 1872 ♀ Peromyscus 20.9 g. 169+ - 70+ - 21-20 no skin, furless 1873 ♀ " 27.2 g. 210-105-24-20 4 mm x 25 mm. 1874 ♀ " boglii 40.6 g. 211-105 - 21-21 4 mm x 9 mm. 1875 ♂ " truii 26.7 g. 191-94 - 23-22.5 3 mm x 13 mm. 1876 ♀ " 27.2 g. 201-97-22.5-24.5 no skin, furless 1877 ♀ " boglii 20.8 g. 194-98 - 21-20 \njune 25 1878 ♀ Myotis 8.7 g. no skin 99-41 - 10-21 no skin 1879 ♀ " 7.9 g. total 8.5 mm. 95-42-10-20 1880 ♂ Eptesicus fuscus 15.6 g. no skin, rect., record partials 119-45 - 11.5-17.5 1881 ♀ " 19.0 g. total 18 mm. 122-47 - 12.5-18. 1882 ♂ " 16.0 g. rect., no skin, record partials 119-47-12-17 1883 ♀ " 20.0 g. 129-49 - 12.5-18.5
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LIDICKER 1959 Canto del Alamo, 7300', Sierra del Nido, Chihuahua, Mexico June 25 1884. ♀ Ed tonicus pecos put up by L Bunnell total 8 mm introduced 15.4 g. 115-48-11.5-18 total x 52 mm. 1885. ♀ ' ' 21.3 g. 125-46-12-18 5 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5600 ft., Chihuahua, Mexico June 28 1886. ♂ Peromyscus maniculatus total 11 mm doc. 24.0 g. 164-62-21-20 June 27 1887. ♀ Pipistrellus hesperus 2 placers, last. 4.4 g. 84-33-7-12 June 28 1888. ♀ T. oxo tone curiprotre (A.S.LEOPOLD) old hound dated 86.5 g. 9.05 = 13 mm. ad. considerable for up total 8 mm. yolk 1889. ♂ Thoromys 125.7 g. total 12 mm, doc. 235-71-3/5-6 1890. ♂ ' ' 121.3 g. 218-59-31-6 1891. ♂ Pipistrellus hesperus 4.1 g. 83-34-7.5-12.5 June 29 1892. ♀ Raithelodontony 2 subs x 9 mm + 1 app. mouse 13.1 g. 165-88-19-15 total 17 mm., doc. 1893. ♂ Oryzomyx torridus 19.5 g. total 5 mm. 140-47-20-18 1894. ♂ Digalomys aridus 35.0 g. total 14 mm, doc. 224-129-36.5-13 1895. ♂ Peromyscus 24.6 g. 6 subs x 9 mm, last 203-93-21-20 1896. ♀ ' ' 38.0 g. 207-104-21-20 no subs parts 1897. ♂ Thoromys 105.4 g. 226-71-27.5-6 (A.H.MILLER) total 43 mm, doc. 1898. ♂ Sylvispes 974.0g. no subs 374-37-85-70 1899. ♀ Thoromys 75.1 g. 200-61-27-5 1900. Bufo punctatus spots many red 1901. ' ' 1902
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1 DICKER 1959 5 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5600 ft., Chilhuenua, Mexico June 30 1903. Bufo punctatus ajoto rusty red. 5 emb x 4 mm. 187-81-21-- total 14 mm. desc. 188-95-21-19 1904 ♀ Paronysa 22.6 g. 1905 ♂ " Anglia 27.5 g. 1906 Seripha the Uroaeus ornatus total 6 mm. 1907 ♂ Thorony 100.8 g. 214-66-29-6.5 6 emb x 24 mm. 497-206-62-28 July 1 total 3.5 mm. 1909 ♂ Parognathus 11.8 g 190-92-21.5-7.5 3 emb x 23 mm. 1910 ♀ Orphompa 32.9 g. 149-49-21-18.5 102.2 g. no emb 211-65-29-6 no emb 1911 ♀ Thorony 110.1 g. 214-62-30-6.5 total 10 mm. desc. 1912 ♂ " 127.6 g. 219-63-30-6.5 1913 ♂ " 1914 ♂ Paronyga flavo 42.7 g. total 11 mm ad. 1915 Bufo punctatus 1916 " " 1917 " " no emb, fact. 1918 ♀ Citelles variegatus 910.3 g 535-228-67-27 July 2 1919 Thamnophis cyrtogai 3 emb x 19 mm + 1 record end, 1920 ♀ Sigmaton miniina 116.9 g. 234+-73+-28-18 no emb, home 1921 ♀ Thorony 103.1 g. 232-72-31-5 1922 ♂ Crotilus mollascus Hyks aemicolor 1923 ? Eleutheractylus? reddish ventrally include vitelaeccs + def. females 1924 " ? " " "
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LIDICKER 1959 5 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5600 ft., Chilchua, Mexico July 2 1925. Bupus junctatus 1926. " 1927. 5 mi. N. Cerro Campana, 5400 ft., Chilchua, Mex. July 2 1928. ♂ Syntelepus auduboni 660.0g. 362-39-85-70 July 3 1929. ♀ Raithkolatong 7.6 g. 143-74- 18.5 -13 1930. ♂ " fulvesces 12.9g. 164-87- 19-13.5 1931. ♂ Diphlong marianae 38.9 g. 252-149-38.5-12.5 1932. ♀ Penyrrotus 13.0g. 160-90 -21-7.5 1933 ♂ " lepidus 18.5-g. 169-83-23.5-10 1934 ♀ Diphlong mariani 35.6g. 245-143- 37-12 1935 ♀ " " 38.9 g. 238-133- 37.5-13 1936 ♂ " ardi 50.1g. 242-132-37-13.5 1937. ♀ Peromopus maniculatus 19.7g. 158-64- 20-18.5 1938. ♀ " " 21.2g. 167-76- 21-16 1939 ♂ Alastone Apila 122.0g. -- 131- 31-26 5 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5600 ft., Chilchua , Mex. July 3 1940 ♀ Diphlong ardi 40.4g. 236-132- 37-12 1941. ♀ " " 50.4g. 237-126- 37-13 1942 ♀ Syngnathus viridimaculatus 49g. 222-87- 27.5 -17 1943 ♂ Peromopus maniculatus 19.8g. 163-65- 21-19.5
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LIDICKER 1959 5 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5600 ft., Chihuahua, Mex. July 3 1944 & Thoromys July 4 109.7g. tests 8 mm. 232-71-31-6 1945 & Citellus arizonicus 617.6 g. tests 25 mm. disc. 502-224-62-23 5 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5350 ft., Chihuahua, Mex. July 4 (W.C.RUSSELL) tests 11 mm. 1946 & Dipotomys harmoni 49.8 g. no comb. 200+-89+-38-13 1947 & Sigmator minimus 34.0 g. 184-76-26-15 (W.C.RUSSELL) tests 11 mm. disc. 1948 & " " 63.4 g. 221-93-28-16 no comb. furrow 1949 & Paromys maniculatus 20.5 g. 165-66-22-18 1950 & Aegophila lottini al. 16.1 g. tests 8.5 mm. singing July 5 3 comb x 3 mm. 1951 & Paragrythis flavus 6.6 g. 105-47-16-6.5 tests 6 mm. 1952 & Dipotomys adii 39.7 g. 237-135-38.5-13.5 5 comb x 15 mm. 1953 & Onychomys torridus 29.4 g. 156-53-21-18 1954 & Dipotomys spectabilis 104.7 g. tests 11 mm. disc. 334-202-53-16.5 tests 7 mm. disc. 1955 & Paromys maniculatus 16.1 g. 149-61-21-17 no comb off. vet origin 1956 & " " 16.0 g. 153-65-21-17 tests 18 mm. disc. 1957 & Nestorom lepida 182.5 g. 324-133-33-27 2 comb x 7 mm. left. 1958 & " " 154.7 g. 307-123-32-28 1959 & Aegophila cesimii al. 16.8 g. tests 9 mm. singing 1960 & Eriopella elpestris jun. 23.7 g. tests 2 mm. 5 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5600 ft., Chihuahua, Mex. July 2 tests 17 mm. disc. 1961 & Eutamias dorsalis 63.9 g. 232-102-76-21 tests 6.5 mm. 1962 & Thoromys 88.3 g. 206-57-28-5
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LIDICKER 1959 5 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5600 ft. Chihuahua, Mex. July 6 1963. ♂ Perognathus flavus 5.6 g. tails 6.5 mm. 103-48-15-6.5 1964. ♀ . . . 6.75 m suly 13x2 dero 110-48-15.5-6.5 1965. ♂ . . . 5.2 g. tails 5 mm. 110-53-16-6 1966. ♂ . . . hojidos 23.0 g. tails 7 mm. 183-94-25-11.5 1967. ♂ . . . 32.7 g. tails 9.5 m. drc. 1968. ♂ Dipodomys ordii 42.7 g. 100-25-12 1969. ♀ . . . 44.1 g. tails 11m. drc. 235-130-37-13 1970. ♀ Baiomys 8.9 g. 110-39-145-11 1971. ♂ Peromyscus mexicanus 21.5 g. tails 8.5 m. drc. 163-68-22-18 1972. ♂ Sigmodon merinus 80.8 g. tails 13 m. drc. 247-104-29-18 1973. ♀ . . . 135.2 g. 5 and x 41 mm. 260-109-28-19 1974. ♀ Citellus variegatus 512.7 g. 5 and x 23 mm. 449-197-56-26 July 7 1975. ♂ Peromyscus boylii 240 g. tails 15mm. drc. 189-95-21- 1976. ♂ . . . tails 15 mm. drc. 25.5 g. 187-93-21-19 1977. ♂ . . . tails 15 mm. drc. 25.6 g. 154-54-21-21 1978. ♀ . . . 4 tails x 27 m. 32.2 g. 201-101-21.5-19 1979. ♂ . . . tails 15 mm. drc. 31.1 g. 208-107-22-19 1980. ♂ Dendroica nigrescens 8.6g. Junr. tails 3/4 m. 4 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5700 ft. Chihuahua, Mex. July 7 1981. ♂ Polioptila al. 5.5 g. tails 6.5 mm 5 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5600 ft. Chihuahua, Mex. July 22 1982. Theromothis cryptopais
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LIDICKER 1959 5 mi. N Cerro Campana, 5600 ft., Chilchua, Mexico July 8 1983. ? Perognathus 11.5 g. 162-89-21-7 tails 4 mm. no amb. midlamb. 1984. ♀ " 11.4 g. 153-85-21-7 tails 3.5 mm. 1985. ♂ " 13.3 g. 173-97-21.5-7 no amb. 1986. ♀ . 13.2 g. 162-85-21-7.5 no amb. 2 dbl. occo 1987. ♂ . 12.2 g. 167-92-22-7.5 tails 4 mm. 1988. ♂ . 12.6 g. 165-88-21-7.5 no amb. 4 dbl. occo 1989. ♀ " 13.1 g. 161-88-21-7.5 no amb. fems 1990. ♀ Reithrodonys 14.1 g. 176-91-19-19 tails 11.5 mm. doc. 1991. ♂ Perognathus stemicus 18.2 g. 193-102-21- 4 amb x 22 mm. 1992. ♀ " 29.4 g. 187-96-20-16 1993. Crothlus lepidus July 9 1994. ♀ Perognathus 10.8 g. no amb. 2 dbl. occo 153-82-19.5-7 no amb. fems 1995. ♂♂ " 11.1 g. tails 4 mm. 150-80-19.5- 1996. ♂ . 10.3 g. tails 5.5 mm. 160-93-19.5-7 1997. ♂ Thonomys 90.3 g. 202-64-28.5-5 July 4 1998. Kiroatemon hirtipes July 8 preputics enlarged, tails 6.5 mm. doc. 1999. ♂ Antrozous pellidus (N.K. JOHNSON) 16.4 g. 114-46-13-29-15 July 5 (c. HASKELL) no amb, lact. 2000. ♀ Sylilagus auderoni 732.8 g. 324-38-82-6# no amb. 2001. ♂ Thonomys 88.6 g. 219-71-30-6
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LICKER 1959 2 mi. E Tepezala', 7500 ft., Aguascalientes, Mex. July 12 2002 ♂ Peneptelus 20.5 g. 181-100-22.5-8 tails 7 mm. 7.5 mm. 2003 ♂ "nelsoni 18.9 g. 182-98-23-8.5- 4 tails x 2 mm. 2004 ♀ " 19.3 g. 190-103-23-8 no tails, 4♂0.0cm. 2005 ♂ ' 18.7g 185-104-23-8 tails 13 mm. disc 2006 ♂ Oryctes torridus 20.1 g. 145-49-22-19 no tails, 6♂0.0cm. 2007 ♀ Peromyscus arrenius 24.8 g. 186-89-20-18.5- tails 5♂1.0cm 2008 ♀ "maniculatus 19.7 g. 156-65-20-16.5 no tails, Periss 2009 ♀ Neotoma 239.2 g. 342-142-35-30 tails 2010 ♂ Mygale 4.9 g. 82-39-8-14.5 3 mi. E Tepezala', 7700 ft., Aguascalientes, Mex. July 12 2010 ♂ Mygale 4.9 g. tails 4 mm. 82-39-8-14.5 July 13 no stiff spine on snout tails 6 mm. Skull Only 2011 ♂ Peneptelus 14.9 g. --105-22-8 no tails not virgin 2012 ♀ "nelsoni 13.1 g. 181-102-22.5-7 tails 6 mm. 2013 ♂ "" 18.7 g. 177-100-22.5-8.5 tails 2.5 mm. 2014 ♂ "" 19.6 g. 178-91-23.5-8 4 tails x 10 mm. 4 tails x 2 mm. 2015 ♀ "" 19.0 g. 177-95-22-8 2016 ♀ "" 15.7 g. 171-91-21.5-8.5 no tails not virgin 13 tails 7 mm. 2017 ♀ Ranthrodontops 2.4 g. 132-70-18- 2018 ♂ "" 9.3 g. 148-77-18-14 tails 9 mm. 2019 ♂ Diphutornyx manion 54.0 g. 268-157-39-14 tails 18mm disc 2020 ♂ Oryctes torridus 29.6 g. 150-52-21-19.5 tails 12mm disc. 2021 ♂ Peromyscus arrenius 24.8 g. 188-95-21-18.5
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LIDICKER 1959 3 mi. E Tepozotla, 7700 ft., Aguascalientes, Mex. July 13 2022. ♀ Peromyscus attenuus 21.4 g. total 10 mm, disc. 190-98-21-19 2 males x 6.5 mm. 2023. ♀ " Coryli 23.6 g. 208-109-22-21 total 17 mm, disc. 263-147-26-24 total 15 mm, disc. 249-131-25-26 2 males x 15 mm. 2024. ♂ " 38.9 g. 248-131-23.5-24 3 males x 4 mm + 4 old, acro 231-119-25-25 total 18 mm, disc. 246-130-26.5-22.5 total 16 mm, disc. 235-123-25-25 total 16 mm, disc. 232-125-25.5-24 total 17 mm 2025. ♂ " 40.4 g. 2026. ♀ " 34.0 g. 2027. ♀ " 37.0 g. 2028. ♂ " 46.5 g. 2029. ♂ 1 " 37.1 g. 2030. ♂ " 31.7 g. 2031. ♂ Neotoma 202.7 g. 341-146-37-30 July 14 2032. ♀ Perognathus 22.0 g. no adults, juveniles 189-101-23.5-9 total 9.5 mm, disc. 150-77-19-14 4 males x 23 mm. 2033. ♂ Reithrodontomys 10.5 g. 181-75-20.5-18 3 males x 9 mm. 2034. ♀ Peromyscus maniculatus 32.0 g. 198-99-23-20.5 total 11 mm, disc. 183-88+-22-19 3 males x 4 mm. 2035. ♀ " 25.1 g. 157+-56+-23-22 total 18 mm, disc. 2036. ♂ " 24.1 g. 362-148-37-30 acro. 3 males x 75 mm. 2037. ♀ " 28.0 g. 589-58-126-134 total 14 mm. 2038. ♂ Neotoma 313.8 g. 2039. ♀ Lepus californicus 3210 g. 221-111-25-22.5 2040. ♀ Peromyscus 335.1 g. Rio de San Pedro, NW into San Antonio, Aguascalientes, Mex July 15 2041. ♀ Baeriops 14.2 g. 3 males x 10 mm, short. 115-42-14-12 total 10 mm, disc. 2042. ♂ Peromyscus maniculatus 22.5 g. 172-75-21-18
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LIDICKER 1959 Rio de San Pedro, NW side San Antonio Aguacalientes, Mex. July 15 2043 & Plompan hamulatus 25.2 g. tests 11 mm., dec. 163-68-21.5-18 2044 & Mus musculus 16.5g tests 7.5 mm., dec. 190-85-18-13 7500 ft. 8 mi. WNW Colonia Presidente Calles, Aguascalientes, Mex. July 15 2045 & Sylillogus flavidus tests 13x4 mm. 336- 556 g. 37-97-60 July 16 2046 ? Baisony 9.1g no ends, jaws 1057-33+-13.5-11.5 2047 ? Parompsis 28.3 g no ends, left 158+59+-21.5-22 tests 25 mm. 2048 & 21.7g 188-95-22-19 no ends, right 2049 ? 18.6 g 174-87-21-19 no ends non-jaws 2050 ? 18.9 g 189-99-22-21 tests 11x5.5 mm. 200-110-22.5-22 3/4 mi. N Colonia Presidente Calles, Aguascalientes, Mex. July 15 2052 callosa Holhornia maculata 3 mi. N Cerro Jaguero, 8200+ ft. Sierra Fria, Agoc, Mex. July 17 2053 & Reithrodontomy 9.5g sv. enlarged skull? test. enlarged 147-76-17-14 no ends, jaws 2054 ? 9.6 g 147-77-17-14 tests 10 mm. 2055 & Parompsis longi 22.3g 191-99-23-22 tests 9 mm. 2056 ? 21.9 g 182-96-23-22 tests 9 mm., dec. 2057 & Sigmomys humottus 41.3 tests 9 mm., dec. 183-74-26-18 3 ends x 8 mm. 2058 ? 58.9 g 209-80-26.5-17 no ends, non-jaws 2059 ? Newton 104.4 g 301-135-35-25 2 ends x 12 mm. dec. 2060 ? 192.2 g 3184-1274-35-27
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LIDICKER 1959 3 mi. N Cerro del Jorjag, 8200+ft, Sierra Dña, Aguacaliente July 17 2061. ♀ Peromyscus difficilis 25.7 g. 20 ambs, non-parous 219-112-24.25 2062. ♀ " 29.9 g. 20 ambs parous 226-119-25-24 2063. ♀ ' 33.6 g. 2 ambs 7 pl. scars 241-124-26-26 2064. ♀ 34.4 g. 2 ambs, non-parous 223-119-25.5-26 2 ambs x 37 min. 253-98-26-19 2065. ♀ Sciurus leucotis 114.0 g. 20 ambs, non-parous 171-64-25-17 2066. ♀ " 40.15. twenty 11 min. loc. 235-128-24.5-23 2067. ♂ Peromyscus difficilis 29.9 g. 20 ambs parous 235-127-24-24.5 2068. ♀ ' 33.8 g. twenty 13 min. loc. 236-129-25-24 2069. ♂ 35.6 g. twenty 12 min. loc. 228-124-25-24.5 2070. ♂ ' 33.1 g. July 18 2071. ♂ Reithrodonomys 9.2 g. twenty 7 min. loc. 143-72-16.5-13 twenty 6 min. 2072. ♂ Peromyscus 21.9 g. 20 ambs, parous 184-89-22-18.5 twenty 6 min. 2073. ♂ Nestoma 35.9 g. 200-85-29-20 2074. frog Eleutherodactylus angustis (W.K.JOHNSON) lact, no ambs. 2075. ♀ Sciurus piciopus 866.0 g. 566-220-75-32 no guts, parous 2076. ♀ Peromyscus difficilis 38.7 g. 2 ambs, non-parous 249-130-24.5-24 2077. ♀ Nestoma 36.4 g. 208-89-29-20 2078. Rana pipiens twenty 6 min. 2079. ♂ Thoronyx unibrins 90.39. 203-59-27.5-5- 1 ambs x 18 min. 2080. ♀ " 81.0 g. 189-57-26.5-6 July 19 2081. Sceloporus grammicus 2082. " torquatus
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LIDICKER 1959 3 mi. N Cerro del Lagijey, 8200 ± ft., SWIRE DÍA, Aguascalientes July 19 2083. ♂ Tronopha umbrina 88.3 g. 202-60-28-5 tests 13 mm. 2084. ♀ " 101.8 g. 201-53-27-5 tests 12 mm. 2 sub x 24 km. 2085. ♂ Neotoma 184.6 g. 350-163-32-27 tests 13 mm. 2086. ♂ Sciurus julius 645.3 g. 545-26(-77)-32,5 tests 3 mm. 2087. ♂ Epterosus fraxino 16.3 g. 115-45-13-18 July 20 2088. Allegeter bigid caribonatus imbricata 2089. ♂ Paromphous trini 28.2 g. 215-111-24-25,5 tests 12 mm., dec. no sub. tan. pars 2050. ♀ " 22.1 g. 174+76+23,5=22,5 tests 8 mm. 2091. ♂ " 21.4 g. 153+59+22-22 tests 8.5 mm. 2092. ♂ Reithrodontomy 8.8 g. 143-73-16,5-14 tests 7 mm., dec. 2093. ♂ " 8.5 g. 147-74-16,5-14 no sub. tan. pars 2094. ♀ " 8.7 g. 142-76-17-14 tests 7,5 mm., dec. 2095. ♂ " 9.2 g. 146-76-16,5-14 2096. Phrynozona oticulera 3 mi. N Cerro del Lagijey, 8700 ± ft., SWIRE DÍA, Aguascalientes July 21 2097. Hybrid Hylox aemulosa Yellowish on lower, white, + lower belly 1 pairs x 34 km. 2098. ♂ Neotoma mexicana 144.4 g. 308-137-345-28 tests 10 mm., dec. 2099. ♂ Paromphous difficilis 29.5 g. 224-118-24-24,5 no subs off leaflet, but not very much 2100. ♀ " 34.1 g. 212-112-24-25 tests 6.5 mm., not dec. 2101. ♂ " 34.6 g. 224-116-24-24,5 no subs, fawns 2102. ♀ " 29.9 g. 232-124-26-24 July 22 2103. Hybrid Hylox aemuloxellana - fawn, thin, lower belly, + lower fore legs
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LIDICKER 1959 3 mi. N Corro del Jazien, 8200 + ft., Sierre Tri, Aguacalientes July 21 2104 ♀ Sigmodon lencotis 100.2 g. 2105. ♀ 29.9 g. 5 a m b x 28 mm. 238-91-27.5-19 July 22 2106 ♂ Peromyscus truei? 28.4 g. 2107 ♂ 20.4 g. 2108 ♀ 22.0 g. 2109 ♂ 25.8 g. 2110. Phrynosoma oricular 2111. Sceloporus gramineo 3 mi. N Corro del Jazien, 8700 + ft., Sierre Tri, Aguacalientes July 22 2112 ♂ Phaeotictus melanoccephalus total 5.5 x 4 mm. 46.4 g. 2113 ♀ Peromyscus difficilis 41.2 g. 2114 ♀ 24.4 g. 2115 ♂ Naotona hexacina 154.0 g. 3 a m b x 22 mm. 248-127-25-24 July 23 3 mi. N Corro del Jazien, 8200 + ft., Sierre Tri, Aguacalientes July 23 2116 ♀ Sigmodon lencotis (D.TAYLOR) 809 g. 228-92-27-18 2117 ♂ Naotona melanica 192.6 g. 312-118+33-27 2118 ♂ 160.0 g. 326-144-33-28 4 ½ mi. NW Corville, 6000 + ft., Aguacalientes July 24 2119. Rana jugensis
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LIBCKER 1959 NE site Presa Calles, Azuacalitas, Mex. July 24 2/20. chub 2/21. chub- 4 1/2 mi. NW Cabrillos, 6000+ ft. Aguascalientes, Mex. July 25 2/22 ♂ Periphetes welsoni 15.6g. 167-87-21.5-8 text 5 mi. 2/23 ♂ Bciomp 9.3g. 116-50-14.5-11.5 text 4 mi. 2/24 ♂ .. 7.9g. 106-82-14-11 text 5 mi. dec. 2/25 ♂ .. 9.8g. 114-44-14.5-11 3 subs x 2 mi. 2/26 ♀ .. 12.6g. 100+-28+-14.5-11.5 text 13 mi. dec. 2/27 ♂ Diplonopus ornatus 49.7g. 280-171-39-14.5 no subs 2/28 ♀ Lioamp inovatus 50.1g. 241-122-29.5-15.5 no subs, text 2/29 ♀ .. 45.2g. 241-123-31-14.5 text 22 mi. dec. 2/30 ♂ .. 57.3g. 250-128-31-15 no subs, new - pars 2/31 ♀ .. 46.4g. 251-131-30.5-15 text 22 mi. dec. 2/32 ♂ .. 57.3g. 137+-20+-29.5-14 3 subs x 15 mi. 2/33 ♀ Perampus pectoralis 24.7g. 212-115-21+-19 text 11 mi. dec. 2/34 ♂ .. 24.1g. 211-116-21.5-19 text 10 mi., dec. 2/35 ♂ .. marialatus 24.5g. 172-74-22-(18.5) no subs, pars 2/36 ♀ .. 24.9g. 163-66-20.5-18.5 text and parts of 2 subs. 2/37 ♀ Neostoma albigula (N.K. JOHNSON) 263.1g. 376-170-38-30 no subs, pars 2/38 ♀ Syphillogus 373.5g. 277-29-69-55 2/39. Cresidthorne sacki July 26 text 6 mi. 2/40 ♂ Perogryttis welsoni 10.7g. 171-98-20.5-7.5
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LIBCKER 1959 4\frac{1}{2} mi. NW Calilla, 6000+ ft. Azuacalientes, Mex. July 26 2141. ♀ Lioyp inrosus 2142. ♀ Signoton hispidus July 25 (N.K. JOHNSON) 2143. ♀ Ctellea varigetus July 26 (B. TAYLOR) 2144. ♂ Calima virginiana \frac{1}{2} mi. S La Labor, 6000+ ft., Azuacalientes, Mex. July 27 2145. ♀ Baioump 2146. ♀ 2147. ♂ 2148. ♀ 2149. ♀ Signoton 2150. ♂ Personcus jactorale 2151. ♂ " maniculatus 2152. ♂ " 2153. ♂ Rattus rattus La Labor 6000+ ft. Azuacalientes, Mex. July 27 2153. ♂ Rattus rattus \frac{1}{2} mi. S La Labor, 6000+ ft. Azuacalientes, Mex. July 27 2154. ♂ Personcus maniculatus 2155. ♀ "
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LIDICKER 1959 1/2 mi. S La Lata, 6000 ft. Agascalbats, Mex. July 27 2156 ♂ Peromopus manuletos 23.2g 167-67-21-18 2157 ♂ " " 20.0g 163-69-21,5-17 2 mi. SW Los Caños, 16 mi. SW Agascalbats Azoc. July 27 test 10 mm dec. 2158. ♂ Diploony ornatus 56.8g 278+ -163+-41-14 July 28 test 5 mm. 2159. ♂ Bamping 8.0g 105-41-14-11 test 3.5 mm 2160 ♂ " 8.7g 112-44-14,5-12 2m x 19mm. 2161. ♂ " 11.2g 111-48-15-11,5 test 4mm 2162 ♂ " 11.0g 17-45-15-12 ⊙ test 4mm. 2163. ♂ " 9.6g 113-46-15-11 test 8 mm. 2164 ♂ Diploony ornatus 50.6g 285-174-41,5-15 test 11 mm dec. 2165 ♂ " 54.5g 292-180-42-14 20 mi. S, 14 mi. E Escuinapa, Sinaloa, Mex. July 29 2166. kinosternid 5 mi. N Carro Campana, 5600 ft. Chihuahua, Mex. June 28 (A.H.MILLER) 2167? ? Mephitis SKULL ONLY PICK UP 1½ mi. SSE Acaponeta, Nayarit, Mexico July 29 2168. iguanid (S.g.reem) DOR (N.K.JOHNSON) 7 mi. SE Escuinapa, Sinaloa, Mexico July 29 2169. Heloderma DOR (N.K.JOHNSON)
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LIDICKER 1959 Brooks Island, Contra Costa Co., California Aug. 3 2170. Thamophis (fragment) from near Nend Petrolia, Humboldt Co., California Aug. 19 2171. Rana 2172. Thamophis Brooks Island, Contra Costa Co., Calif. Aug. 29 2173. Thamophis from near July 5 2174. & Mieria californiae 47.4 g. 190-56-21-14 2175. ♀ " " 44.9 g. 174-26-21-15 2176. ♂ ~ " 44.3 g. 185-51-21-15 2177. ♂ ~ " 40.0 g. 176-50-23-14 Aug. 3 2178. ♂ " " 41.9 g. 187-56-23-14 2179. ♂ " " 45.2 g. 198-57-22-15 June 21 cloam deliberately from sample " (humanly pole indian) 30.4 g. 165-48-22-13 Sept. 13 2180. ♂ " " 2181. ♂ " " 46.3 g. 186-54-23-16 2182. ♂ " " 38.7 g. 184-47-22-16 2183. ♀ " " 43.5 g. 185-51-21.5-15 Aug. 3 2184. ♂ " " 39.6 g. 175-50-21-16
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LIDICKER 1959 Brooks Island, Contra Costa Co., California Aug. 16 2185. ♀ Microtus californicus 43.3 g. 186-55-23-16 2186. ♂ " 38.7 g. 181-52-23-14 Aug. 30 2187. ♀ " " 56.9 g. 179-49-21-15 Sept. 27 2188. ♂ " " 52.7 g. 184-66-22-16 2189. Thomophis (north end) 2190. ♀ Microtus californicus 40.5 g. 179-51-21-14 2191 ♂ " " 51.6 g. 196-58-23.5-16 2192 ♂ .. .. 50.2 g. 189-53-23-16 Oct. 25 2193 ♀ " " selected from sample became buff color. 45.7 g. 185-51-21.5-17 2194 ♂ .. .. selected from sample became ♀ buff color 52.6 g. 198-56-23-17 Mar. 28 2195 ♀ " " 63.6g. 174-47-19.5-13 3¾ mi. E, 1 mi. S San Benito, San Benito Co., Calif. Dec. 30, 1957 . died in captivity Dec. 18, 1959 .td ground house of shanties after captivity tests 10 mo. (not desc.) 2196 ♂ Dipodomys elapuntius + injured 48.4g (accuracy) 276+-145+-46.5-20.5 shrink Brooks Island, Contra Costa Co., Calif. March 15 2197. ♂ Microtus californicus 46.5 g. 175-46-21-15.5 2198. ♂ " " 47.4 g. 185+-51+-22-14 2199. ♀ .. .. 50.7 g. 188-55-21.5-14
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27013 2721 B A 41-55-22-82 , 294 41-55-22-181 , 285 08-30 21-16-14-901 , 222 7,542 21-55-20-791 , 247 (An item) 41-15-12-901 , 2204 41-26-32-521 , 2230 21-55-32-931 , 2472 23.60 41-28-14-781 , 2784 41-55-32-821 , 2,222 26.409 41-28-14-791 (23) 41-26-14-761 , 224 41-56-412-281 , 2,854 41-26-22-821 , 2902
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LIBICKER 1959 Brooma, Delad, Contra Costa Co., Calif. April 26 2200. & Microtus californicus 50.5 g. 188-48-21-14.5 2201. ? " " 46.7 g. 184-49-22.5-15- Aug. 3 2202. & " " fluffy spec., selected from sample 44.4 g. 179-51-21-14 2203. & " " 42.4 g. 179-54-22-15 Aug. 30 2204. & " " 41.6 g 183-53-21.5-14 2205. & " " 47.2 g. 173-48-20.5-15 [illegible] April 12, 1959 2206 & " " 38.0 g. 181-52-22-13 2207. ? " " 38.1 g. 171-46-22.5-14 2208. & " " 38.1 g. 182-54-21-13 2209. & " " 40.2 g. 178-48-21.5-13.5 2210. ? " " 40.7 g. 174-48-20.5-13 April 26 2211. & " " 46.2 g. 184-51-20-14.5 2212. ? " " 41.5 g 184-53-21-14.5 2213. & " " 42.9 g. 180-51-21.5-13 2214. & " " 60.3 g. 195-56-21-14 May 10 2215. ? " " 45.6 g. 185-52-21-14 2216. & " " 46.2 g. 193-56-20.5-15.5 2217. & " " 38.1 g. 182-54-22-13 2218. & " " 40.2 g. 179-49-22-13.5
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[illegible] 271-54-84-221 2 2.02 271-54-74-491 2 2.34 271-56-12-801 2 X 3 271-55-42-801 2 2.64 271-54-22-281 2 2.94 271-56-94-851 2 2.54 271-56-57-191 2 2.73 271-56-24-104 2 2.32 271-54-28-581 2 2.85 271-56-84-301 2 2.94 271-56-20-121 2 2.44 271-56-22-481 2 2.34 271-56-17-431 2 2.34 271-54-03-081 2 2.04 271-54-52-281 2 2.02 271-56-17-291 2 2.74 271-56-37-191 2 2.34 271-56-47-191 2 2.80 271-56-33-101 2 2.04
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ker, N. I. 1957 + 1958 Spida Kern R., 11 ENE Bakersfield, Kern Co., California Nov. 29 19. ♀ Peromyscus maniculatus 162 S emb x 2 mm. resorbing 755-72-20-17 no emb. 4 pl. scars 20. ♀ " " 171-77-21-18 4 mi. NE Caliente, Kern Co., California Nov 30 21. ♀ Peromyscus boylii no emb. 254-131-27-26 22. ♂ " maniculatus testa 6 mm. 198-93-22-19 3 1/4 mi. S, 1 3/4 mi. E San Benito, San Benito Co., California Dec. 30 23. ♂ Peromyscus truei testes 10x5mm. 194-96-24-22.5 24. ♀ " scmb's. X 25 mm. 198-100-22-24 3 mi. S, 1 1/4 mi E San Benito, San Benito Co., California Dec. 30 25. ♀ Peromyscus maniculatus 6 resorbing scars 169-75-21-18 5 1/2 mi. N Banner, San Felipe Valley, San Diego Co., Calif. Mar. 31, 1958 testi's 10 x 7 mm 26. ♂ Peromyscus maniculatus 152-69-19-17 testi's 11x8mm 27. ♂ " 179-84-22-18 4 emb.x 15mm. +i resorb. x 28 ♀ Onychomys torridus 6mm 153-54-20-18 testi's 7x5 mm. 29 ♂ Thomomys bottae 210-72-29-8 2 1/0 mi. W Yagui Well, Yagui Well Valley, San Diego Co., Calif. Apr. 1, 1958 no emb. 30. ♀ Perognathus bairdii baileyi 192-76-7 188-10-3-24-9 3emb. X10mm. 31. ♀ Peromyscus eremicus 208-117-21-19 2 1/4 mi. S, 3 3/4 mi. E Agua Caliente, Vallejo Valley, San Diego Co., Calif. Apr. 2, 1958 32. ♀ Dipodomys merriami arenivagus 225-136-36-13
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Sidicker, N.I. 1958 1 mi. W Jacumba, San Diego Co., California Apr. 3 33. ♂ Peromyscus maniculatus testis 11x7 mm. 179-84-22-19 34. ♀ " " 4 emb. x 19 mm. 165-73-21-18 Carrizo Canyon, 6.9 mi. S, 2 1/2 mi. E Mountain Palm Spr., San Diego Co., Calif. Apr. 4 35. ♀ Perognathus penicillatus no embs. 187-102-24-9 36. ♂ " " testis 8x5mm. siriptua 181-104-21-9 37. ♂ Peromyscus eremicus testis - 15X8.5 mm. 207-116-21-21 38. ♀ " " no embs. 207-114-21-20 3 mi. NW Jacumba, San Diego Co., California Apr. 3 39. ♂ Peromyscus eremicus testis 11 mm., S.V. 20mm. 209-111-22-20 7 mi. WSW Cuatitlanos, Chihuahua, Mexico June 23 40. ♂ Peromyscus maniculatus testis 8x6 mm. 156-64-22-18 41. ♂ Reithrodon tomops testis 9x6 20 - 14 160-87-22-18.5 42. ♂ Peromyscus testis 12x7 mm. 199-105-21-19 June 24 43. ♀ Onychomys leucogaster testis 7x4 mm. 124-45-19-17 44. ♀ " " 3emb. or 17mm lactating 140-42-19-16 15 mi. N Cd. Camargo, Chihuahua, Mexico June 25 45. ♀ Perognathus no embs. 171-90-22-7.5 46. ♀ " no embs. 167-80-22-7.5 47. ♀ Dipodomys merriami 8 no embs. 246-148-38-13
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dicker, N.I. 1958 7 mi. WSW Cuah[illegible]ntemoa, Chihuahua, MExico June 23 48 Phrynosoma [illegible] or douglasi 49 Iguanid Sceloporus aculeata 50 " 51. 52. Sceloporus June 24 53. Sceloporus 3 mi. NNW Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mex. June 27 54. Cnemidophorus packi 7 mi. S Villa Matamoros, Chihuahua, Mex. June 27 55. Cnemidophorus packi 3.7 mi. byroad S La Cuesta, Durango, Mex. June 28 testis 8x4.5 mm. 187-103-23-9.5 no embs. 190-110-23-10 56 Q Peromyscus S side Mil Dias, 1 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, Mex. June 29 58. ? Peromyscus 2 emb s cr 18 mm. 187-92-23-19 3.7 mi. byroad S La Cuesta, Durango, etc Mex. June 28 59. Skink Euneces [illegible]letus 60. Cnemidophorus tigris ?
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dicker, N. J 1958 S side Mil Dias, 1 mi NW El Salto, Durango, Mex June 30 61. ♂ Peromyscus testis 13.5x8 mm 212-118-23-25 4 embs. cR 8mm. 175+-76+-22-26 62. ♀ " July 1 63. ♀ " 3 embs. cR 20 mm. 198-90-23-25 64. ♂ " testis 11x7mm 193-98-22-24 65. ♂ " testis 12x8mm 198-103-23-24 1.5 mi. NW Mil Dias, 3 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, Mex July 2 66. ♀ Peromyscus other no embs. lactating 231-123-24-26 67. ♀ " no embs. 200-110-25-24 68. ♀ " 3 embs. x 8mm. lactating 219-121+3 embs. resorbing 121-23-23 69. ♀ Neotoma 227+-52+-32 28 July 3 70. ♀ Peromyscus 223-124-24-23 71. ♂ Neotoma 341-153-36-29 S side Mil Dias, 1 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, Mex June 29 12. Colubrid' Thamnophis melanogaster 13. " .. 14. " .. 15. " " macrostemma 16. Rana pipiens 17. small green Hyla. -14 Lyxinia S side Mil Dias, 1 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, 18
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dicker, N. 1958 E side Mil Dias, 1 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, Mex June 29, 1958 78. Gray skyla aricolus 79. Sceloporus jarvii 80. " "jarvii" 81. " "jarvii" 82. " "jarvii" 83. " (torquatus group) S side Mil Dias, 1 mi. NW El Salto, Durango. July 1, 1958 84. Sceloporus (torquatus gp) joinsetti July 2 85. Alligator lizard Darborus (Barisia) inbrecta 2 mi. NW Mil Dias, 3.5 NW El Salto, Durango, Mex. July 1 86. Rana pipiens 87. Thamnophis sp. macrotemma 88. " "sp."" 1.5 mi. NW Mil Dias, 3 mi. NW El Salto, Durango, Mex. July 3 89. Sceloporus jarvii 2 mi. NE El Salto, Durango, Mex. July 3 90. Thamnophis sp. dull orange buff venter aquas July 4 macrotemma 91. " ""aig. sp. pale blue venter, except first 3 inches white; pale yellow.
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Lidicker, N 1958 17 mi. SE Nombre de Dios, Durango, Méx. July 5, 1958 92. Scaphiopus 93. ~~Scaphiopus hamordi~~ 4 1/2 mi. E Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Méx. July 6 no embos. 94. ♀ Dipodomys merriami 253-142-41-14 test X 1 mm. 95. ♂ " " 265-154-41-14 no embos. 96. ♀ " " 238-144-39-14 test. X 1/3 mm. 97. ♂ Peromyscus maniculatus 181-76-23-19 test X 2 mm. 98. ♀♂ Dipodomys merriami 238-138-40-13 tembos. ØX8mm. 99. ♀ Citellus sp. 231-64-35-11 test. X 5 mm.) 100. ♂ " " 175-51-31-9 no embos 101. ♀ " " 166-50-32-8 (test. 20X11 mm.) 102. ♂ " " 235-867-34-12 17 mi. SE Nombre de Dios, Durango, Méx. July 5 103. ~~Scaphiopus hamordi~~ Tecozala 2 mi. E Pasata, 2/10 mi. S, 11 3/4 mi E Rincon de Romos, Agsc. Méx. July 8 no embos. 104. ♀ Peromyscus 196-104-22-19 test. X 1 mm. 105. ♂ " " 209-111-23-21 July 9 106. ♂ Peromyscus 190-100-21-17 107. ♀ " " 200-108-21-19 test. X (mm.) 108. ♂ " " 191-102-22-17 109. Peromyscus 170-92-21-18
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icker, N. 1958 Tepezala 2 mi. E Pasala, 2/0 mi. S, 11 3/4 mi. E Rincon de Romo, Ageo., Mex. 110. July 10 110. ♀ Oerognathus no embs 190 - 106 - 24 - 9 test. X 8 mm. 111. ♂ " 201 - 112 - 24 - 9 test. X 7 mm. 112. ♂ " 194 - 106 - 24 - 9 2 embs. X 7 mm. 113. ♀ Peromyscus 181 - 95 - 21 - 19 2 embs. X 12 mm. 114. ♀ " 197 - 103 - 22 - 21 3 embs. X 4 mm 115. ♀ " 186 - 99 - 21 - 19 test. X 10 mm.) 116. ♂ " (catch together) 190-105-21-18 age: no embs. 117. ♀ " 213-107-22-19 203-102-23 (test. X 10 mm) 118. ♂ " 203 - 102 - 23 - 19 1/3 mi. NW Ciudad de Los Ninos, 7mi. WSW Aguascaliente, Ageo., Mex. July 13 119. ♂ Oerognathus test. X 8 mm. 171 - 99 - 21 - 8 test. X 12mm). 120. ♂ Dipodomys ornatus) 285-164-41-15 1/3 mi. S, 1 1/4 mi. E Rincon de Romo, Ageo., Mex. July 11 121. Thamnophis sp. macrostemma ? 122. Rana sp. jipienzi 123. Cnemidophorus oachi 124. " ". 125. " ". 126. " .. 127. " . 128. " . 129. Thamnophis sp. macrostemma ?
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LIDICKER, N. 1958 \frac{1}{3} mi. S; 1 \frac{1}{4} mi. E Rincon de Ramos, Agca., M6x. July 11 130. S celoporus - spinosus July 12 131. Kinosternon intigrum? 5 \frac{1}{2} mi. W Calvillo, A g c . , m e x July 14 132. Peromyscus maniculatus test. X 10 mm. 170-77-22-18 133. Dipodomys ornatus test. X 12mm 294-178-41-17 test. X 13 mm 134. " 308-190-43-17 Ciudad de los Rios, 7 mi. WSW Aguascalientes, Agoc., Mex. July 13 135. baby frog-Rana - 9 \frac{1}{3} mi. NW Ciudad de los rios, 7 mi. WSW Aguascalientes, Agca. July 13 136. Cnemidophorus sachi? 5 \frac{1}{2} mi. W Calvillo A g c . , m e x July 14 137. ?Cnemidophorus sachi? 1 km. S La Labor, 9 mi by road N Calvillo Agca. Mex. July 14 138. Bufo punctatus (state record) July 15 139. Cnemidophorus sachi ? 140. (3) recently transformed Scaphiopus - 3 July 16 141. Scaphiopus hammondi
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LIDICKER, N. 1958 1 km. S La Labor, 9 mi. by road N Calvillo, Agsc., Méx. July 16 142. Scaphiopus 143 " 144 " 145 " 146 " 147 " 2 mi. N Calvillo, Agsc., Méx. July 17 148. Bufo punctatus 149. Cnemidophorus sachi? 150 " 151 " 7 1/2 mi. WSW Calvillo, Agsc., Méx. July 18 152. Sceloporus sp. spinosus 1/4 mi. E state boundary, 8 mi. SW Calvillo, Agsc., Méx. July 20 153. ♂ Leroyceus test. x 10 mm.) 207-115-22-19 154. ♀ " lact. no embs. 218-117-22-20 no embs. 155. ♀ Liorneza 252-123-32-19 Venaveros, 13 mi. W Aguascalientes, Agsc., Méx. July 21 156. ♂ Mus musculus test. x 8 mm.) 177-91-19-14 8 embs. x 5 mm. 157. ♀ " 175-86-20-14
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LIDICKER, N. 1958 1/4 mi. E State Boundary, 8 mi. SW Calvillo, Agoe., Mex. July 19, 1958 158. ♂ Ctenemidogborus sacki ? July 20, 1958 159. Scaphiopos hamondi 1 mi. S La Palma, 13 mi. NE Jalpa, Zacatecas, Mex. July 19, 1958 160. ♂ Ctenemidogborus sacki ? Venaverro, 13 mi. W Aguascalientes, Agoe., Mex. July 22, 1958 161. ♂ Peromyscus test. X 12 mm. 214-113-25-20 162. ♂ " test. X 10 mm. 174+-187+-22-21 163. ♀ " no embro. 183+-88+-23-21 1 mi. NE Viedas de Oriente, 11 mi. SE Rincon de Romoe, Agoe., Mex. July 23, 1958 164. ♀ Dipodomys merriami no embro 228-131-29-10 165. ♂ " test. X 8 mm. 253-148-30-15 (no embs.) 166. ♀ Citellus 184-60-31-10 Venaverro 13 mi. W Aguascalientes, Agoe., Mex. July 21, 1958 167. Scaphiopos 168. " 169. " 170. " 171. " 172. " 173. ♀
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LIDICKER, N. 1958 Venaveroa, 13 mi. W Aguascalientes, Agua, Mex. July 21, 1958 174. Scaphiopus hamordi 175. " 176. " 177. " 178. Phryno ocularis 179. " 11 mi. SE Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mex. July 23, 1958 180. Bufo punctatus 181. Hylidz 182. " 7 mi. SSE Escuinapa, Sinaloa, Mex. July 24, 1958 183. Bufo kelloggi 184. Hylid 10 mi. S Loschinoa, 48 mi. S Casa Blanca, Sonora, Mex. July 26, 1958 185. Black & Red Colubrid Drymocten corais 17 mi. S Casa Blanca, Sonora, Mex. July 26 186. Striped colubrid Mastigophis bilineatus 30 mi NNW Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mex. July 25 187 turtle - Geomyda pulcherrima with sticks around Amphigonus sativa, dicamides Koch
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icker, N. 1959 13 mi. W, 1 mi. N Rumorosa, Baja California del norte, Mexico March 31, 1959 188. ♂ Peromyscus boylii test. 13x7 mm. 195-107-21-21 189. ♀ 3 embs. (CR 21mm.) lact. 200-108-20-19 190. ♂ californicus test. 10x6 mm. 228-126-25-25 191. ♂ test. 10x6 mm 224-120-25-22 192. ♂ maniculatus test. 11x6 mm. 171-78-20-17.5 193. ♀ tems. (CR 4mm.) 180-77-20-18 3 mi. SS W San Felipe, Baja Calif. del norte, Mexico April 2 194. ♀ Dipodomys merriami no embro. 252-145-37-15 195. ♂ test. 9x6 mm. 256-153-38-15 196. ♂ test. 11x6 mm. 246-141-38-14 197. ♂ test. 8.5x5mm. 247-143-38-13 198. ♂ test. 9x6 mm. 251-143-37-15 199. ♂ deserti test. 8x4 mm 357-209-53-17 31 mi. N, 7 mi. W San Felipe, Baja Calif. del norte, Mexico April 3 200. ♂ Dipodomys merriami test. 7x4mm 237-136-37-13 201. ♀ no embro. 238-137-36-14 202. ♀ no pups. 234-134-37-13 203. ♀ no embryos. 235-136-38-12 204. ♀ no embryos. 238-134-37-14
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MARLER 1958 4½ miles E. of Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mex. July 6th 1958. Testis 11 mm. 1. ♂ Peromyscus sp. maniculatus. 163 - 68 - 21 - 19 2. ♂ Dipodomys ordi 234 - 137 - 36 - 13 sp. meremii July 5th 1958 3. ♀ Citellus sp 169 244 - 58 - 29 - 8 4 July 6th 1958. ♀ Citellus. 7 anal x 8 mm. 219 - 63 - 30 - 9 5 ♂ Citellus . ♀ Testis 26 mm. 224 - 62 - 34 - 9. 6 juv ♀ Citellus 167 - 58 - 31 - 8 17 m SE Nombre de Dios, Durango, Mex. July 5th 1958 7. ♂ Aimophila botterri Tepezala, 8 ♂ Trrr 2m E [illegible], 2/10 m S, 11¾ m E Rincon de Romos Aguascalientes Mex. July 10 th 1958 Wren 8. ♂ Troglodytes sp. Testis 6mm. 9. ♂ Wren sp. Testis 6mm. ⅓ mi. S, 1¼ mi. E Rincon de Romos, Aguascalientes, Mex. July 11th 1958 10 ♂ White winged dove
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LIDICKER 1958 Eastern San Diego County Trip March 28 - Apr. 6 with NIL. Mar. 28 Lv. Berkeley 1040. Took US 101 south toward Los Angeles. 2 mi. E Dariota (W of Sta. Barbara) we stopped to look at the ocean. Saw: Turkey Vultures - 4 (circling over ocean, & then continued inland) Surf Scoters - 15 W. Grebe - 20 num. Seals or Cormorants. Spent night in motel in Ventura. Mar. 29 Continued into LA & spent day visiting with Schroeter & Horinchi. Spent night with Schroeter in Granada Hill. Mar. 30 Continued S on US 101. Stopped at Anaheim to visit Cinerama & briefly visit Disneyland. About 1230 we headed E on Calif. 18 to Corona. Then turned S on Calif. 71. About 1 mi. N of Elan Dry Hot Spgs. turnoff there are a few areas which seem like they may have marrion in them, but in general the area is grassy & seems too thick. Just S of above turnoff - there are a few good looking areas on eroded slopes. 1 mi. S turnoff = good looking area on the flat. 3 mi. S " = fairly extensive & good-looking
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LIDCKER 1958 (Mar.30 cont.) area, esp along some creek bottoms. Med. size mt. range immediately to the east of highway. Saw 2 Ravens in this area. S of Aberhill it looks too thick again for meriani. Begin 2 rain when we got to Elmore. At Wildomar turnoff the valley is green + grassy + cultivated, thc hills are brushy, however & may have meriani on them. On the vic. of Murrieta the rd. descend into a broad green valley, no into nearly & seems very unlikely that meriani would be here. Continued on 71 toward Aguanga. 10 mi W of jet with Calif 79 saw a Marsh Hawk, Sp. Hawk & about 13 T- Vultures. 8 mi W of jet - could possibly be meriani habitat, but poor; begins to get hilly here with brush covered slopes. 2 mi. farther sage brush begins & habitat looks much better. At 4 mi. w of jet with 79 is Drifting Spy area. Her the veg. is thicker again with much Adenostoma etc. Beyond this the habitat opens up again. The area around the jet. looks good & meriani probably there. Also saw raven here. Continued 5 on Calif. 79. 3 mi. beyond jet (1 mi. from Aguanga) then we low hills & slopes which look suitable for meriani, however, the higher slope to the west & south do not. S of Aguanga the road begins to climb into boulder,
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L/DICKER 1958 (Mar 30 cont.) coved hills ; maniani probably present. 2 mi. beyond Agurza is the San Diego Co. line. Here the rd. begins to descend slightly; as fall into t the W. There is still Cholla + shrubby veg. with much Adenostome, a little sage, & another [frustration] chemise-like shrub. The soil here is quite sandy. 3 mi. further this chemise-like shrub (Sotone arifolium) bark feels revealing a reddish color) form almost a forest 6-8 ft. high. The understory is still mainly sage. Another mi. & we reached Oak Grove. This located in a flat green valley extending eastward. Hills on E side (valley) look dry & maniani may be there. About 4 mi. beyond Oak Grove we stopped to look around. Saw a ro. of holes which were probably D. agileis; lots of gophers. Also saw Bluebirds, Audubons Warblers, Oregon Juncos, wh-c's Sparrows & Lark Sparrows. Another mi. further is a low green valley (Pardice Ranch) sloping southward. At 6 mi. beyond Oak Grove the elevation is 3200 ft. (Sunshine Summit) + a large valley slopes southward. At 8 mi. from Oak G. we picked up a wash going S. 3 mi. further (4 mi. above Warner Spgs) saw 2 Sp. Hawks; still in sage, open, grazed fields while aptd far to west. There may be lonely slopes to the east. At 2 mi. above Warner Spgs, sage brush, hills + seemingly suitable habitat
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LIDICKER 1958. (Mar 30 cont.) For mariani return. Around Warner Springs the soil is quite reddish; saw a few Lark Sparrows. About 4 mi further we joined with rd going directly to Scissors Crossing thru San Felipe Valley. We turned off on this road. At 9 mi, above Scissors Crossing is the San Felipe Maintenance Stn. At 4 mi, above Crossing we started to see a few (saw killdeer) Joshua trees. We drove to Crossing then turned around & went back 6 mi. to dirt road which turned off to S & went along San Felipe Creek. We camped a short way down this road (5 1/2 mi. N Banner, San Felipe Valley). Set out 64 traps mostly on shrub covered slope N of camp; also 2 gopher traps. The valley itself was fairly green & had probably been cultivated, but the slopes looked like fair mariani habitat & there was some sign that just. [illegible] was remaining. The shrubs were mixed & mostly unidentified, but Adenostoma was present & dominated in some areas (but was not real tell). Was cold, windy, & rainy during sites Mar 31 Catch: Peromyscus maniculatus -11 Onychomys torridus -1 Dipodomys agilis -1 (yy) Perognathus longimembris -2 Thamnomys bottae -1 Around camp saw: Ladderback Woodpecker -1
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LIDICKER 1958 (MAR. 31 cont.) inddent. wren, Bullock's Oriole - 1, Western Kingbird - 3, Yellowthroat - 1, & sev Sparrow that were fast. Song Sp. Skinned arid & Left camp ~ 1350. Noticed that when Joshu trees begin to appear there is also also more cactus & tumbleweed appears. Lorre also appears & i see dom. in patches. Went E on Calif. 78 toward Barrege Valley. Went through Sentenac Canyon; this look like it would be an effective barrier to D. merriami. 4 mi. past jt. you come out into large valley which is strikingly different in vegetation from that on the W & S side of the Canyon. It is obviously much drier with ocotillo, Lorre, much agave, los n cholla, etc. (Yaqwi Well Valley). A little over a mile from the entrance to this valle we stopped & looked around. Saw Chipping Sp- con., Wh. cr. Sp. - con., House Finch - con, W. Bluebird - a few, Vardis - 1+, Hooded Oriole - 1+, Song Sp - few, orange cr. warbler - many, Gambel's Quail (heard), Costa's hummingbird - 1+ (sev. indident ?), Lejus californicus - 1. Continued on road over Yaqwi Pass - saw sev Phairopepla near turnoff to Yaqwi Pass. Yaqwi Pas is quite rocky, but merriami could probally get over them. Saw a shrike & a Sylviaizaga in this area. Went into
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(Mar. 31 cont.) Borrego + Borrego Springs camp ground looking for Marler & party. We find their trailer, but not them, so we left & returned to Borrego, then we took the rd. SE out of Borrego down the valley. At the jet with Calif 78 we turned W toward San Felipe Narrows. About 1 1/2 mi. W of jet. we noticed that the hills directly to the S might support merriami. 5 1/2 mi. W of jet. however, we could see another small valley to the south (prob. behind Pond Granite Hill) & beyond this to the south were tall pines which seemed to have forested tops. The Narrows themselves did not seem to represent an effective barrier to merriami. So was 9.1 mi. from jet. with 78 to jet. with Yaguri Pass Rd. on W side of Narrows. We turned down the dirt rd. to Yaguri Well & went 2/10 mi. beyond Yaguri Well & camped. We set out 70 traps in the surrounding washes & on the gravelly hillsides. Rained -little- during night & was also quite windy. April 1 Catch: Perognathus - 6 dead, 1 alive (died later) + 1 tail-tips Perognathus - 1 Pasomyacne arenaria - 2 The complete score was just alive with birds. Quail eggs were very abundant. Also
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IDICKER 1958 (April 1 cont.) saw Phtherson Gral cactile -1, Cedar Waxwing - ~20, Plainoplele - com. resident. hummers see. Horse bird - abund., Wk cr. Sparrow - abund & Hooded Oriole ?-1 (lead singing). After skinning our catch we broke camp & briefly visited Yaqini Well. Were about 100 Cedar Waxwings around well also saw Western Flycatcher -1. We went back through Sentences Canyon & went SE on dirt rd. just beyond Scissor Crossing, into Earthquake Valley. 8/10 mi. from turnoff about more Lavrea comes in, no ocotillo, almost no cactus, no Barrel cactus, some mesquite. the whole valley gives an entirely different appearance than the Yaqini Well & Borrego valleys. Were also about 7 annual flowers blooming with much grass, bolt carpeted & bunches. 2.1 mi. further, an occasional Joshua Tree was seen. 4.5 mi. from turnoff was Park boundary. At 5.9 mi. from turnoff rd. goes through a pass which would seem to be at least a partial barrier to remnants (very rocky) ocotillos on one side of the pass. At 6 mi. from turnoff pass leads into another valley which is much like the valley just left - [illegible] some veg., etc. This is undoubtedly Blair Valley. At 6.4 mi. is Blair Valley Ranger Sta. There are a few more century plants, but otherwise way much the same. Elevation descending gradually.
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LIDICKER 1958 (April 1 cont.) At 7 mi. from turnoff small junipers begin to show up & these become thicker for the next 1/2 mi. Doesn't look like desert country. As we came through Blair Valley it began raining again. 1 1/2 mi. further the valley is narrowing slightly but still descending. At 9 mi. from turnoff we entered Box canyon which has steep hills on both sides - considerable travel cactus. By 9.4 mi. the way begins to look more arid again although there is still much grass but the junipers are gone. At 9.8 mi. the road begins to enter a huge valley with high ints directly to the south (Mason Valley). At 10.3 mi. there is cholla again, lots of agave, Larrea & a little ocotillo. At 11.0 mi. leave Park. At 12.7 mi. way is almost pure Larrea with short grass carpet in between. By 13.4 mi. however, other types of veg. are again present. At 13.7 entering another pass which seems pretty low, but is rocky (Santworth Range). At 13.8 road drops quickly into Vallecito Valley - lots of ocotillo, cholla & small shrub. At 18.5 mi. we entered Vallecito Stage Sta. 1 mi beyond Vallecito the Park begins again. Here the amt. of grass between the shrubs had diminished. 4.2 mi. beyond Vallecito we came to Agua Caliente. We continued E to
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(April 1 cont) to the N a dirt rd. turnoff just W of the Carlsbad Canyon turnoff. After a short way N the road turned E in the creek led by Carrizo Creek. After sev. miles we came back as hard rain & wind came up again. We returned to within a few tenths of a mile of the main rd. & camped along a fence (2 1/4 mi. S, 3 3/4 mi. E Agua Caliente). We set 65 trap just E of camp. This area is very good & excellent merriami habitat. It rained & the wind blew hard practically all night. April 2 Catch: Dipodomys merriami - 3 Perognathus longimembris -1 (alive) One of the merriamis had both forded stuffed mostly with green stuff including leaves, flower buds & sim. seeds; there were also a few mature seeds. At camp we saw Verdin (Conn.) including a nest with young, West. Bratcatcher -1, House finch, a Crissal's or LeConte' Thrasher, resident. Hummer - sev. violet green swallows ?- 1. The day before we had seen in the rain a large flock of whitish shore bird-like creature. After skinning our small catch we continued E. Saw a shrike a short way just camp. Road veers southward toward the mts. & Sweeney Canyon. Vallecitos Valley (Carrizo Valley) opens to eastward into Imperial Valley. At 1.2 mi. beyond Box Willow
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(April 2 cont) Canyon Range Sta turnoff we stopped to look at a small flock of sparrows. They were Chipping Sparrows but it was noticed that they practically all had thin gray strips through their reddish crowns. Sweeney Canyon may be partial barrier to migration esp because of its rockiness. Were beautiful red flowers carpeting work through Canyon. At 5.1 mi. from County line the road gets into four meeniani habitat. At 3.4 mi. from County line the road begins to descend into the large Valley which extends Eastward into the Imperial Valley. About ½ mi. beyond Co. line we stopped to watch a flock of birds. We saw: Audubon's Warbler - 20 ± unidentified, hummer - sev. Orange cr. Warbler - sev. Bullock Oriole - 20± W. Bluebird - 3+ W. Kingbird - 30+ Mockingbird - 1 Blk-thr. Gray Warbler - 1+ W. Palm Warbler - 1 Desert Sparrow - 3+ Chipping Sparrow - 6+ Lark Sparrow - 1 A little further down the road we saw another Blk.thr. Gray Warbler, 2 Brewer's Sparrows, a Horned Lark & a vardin. We continued & met US so at Ocotillo. We then turned W on US 80 toward Jacumba. We went up thru Qn-lo-pek Range - very rocky & no dips in these hills. At Mt. Sep. there is a relatively small level place & this the road
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L'DICKER 1958 (April 2 cont.) continues up. About 6.5 mi. E of Jacumba (yrd) the road comes into a valley which could have dips in it - this is the first seemingly suitable habitat since the small area at Mt. Spy. There is Larrea, yucca, etc. About 5.3 mi from Jacumba junipers come in pretty thickly but soil fairly sandy. This valley seems to extend southward a no. of miles + seems to be eventually enclosed by into. At ~ 4.9 mi from Jacumba the rd. descends to 3000 ft. At 2 mi from Jacumba the valley seems to extend southward 5+ miles + no apparent gaps can be seen. We continued through Jacumba to Boulevard to see the area + then turned around to set traps. The road begins to ascend gradually W of Jacumba. It began to rain as we came into 2-leaf Sage + continuing intermittently 3/10 mi from Boulevard we saw a Calif Jay. Our plan was to sample the various habitats available in Jacumba Valley. First we set 28 traps 3 mi NW of Jacumba (2.8 mi. from Boulevard). This was a fairly open brushy area, but with no definite dips sign. We also saw a Calif Jay here. We could find no diff. to get N of Jacumba so we went S about 1/4 mi. + set 2 rat traps in front of active-looking fairly large dips holes. Then we set 16 traps in a open field within the town which had
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LIDICKER 1958 (AND 2 cont.) Scattered large clumps of shrubs - much grass in between; no sign of anything. Then we returned W & set trap between the highway & the railroad 1 mi E W Jacumba. This was the area just E of where the RR & highway become separated by hills. This looked the best of all the area set & had a small unit of dipos sign. We stayed in a Motel - Jacumba as it was very cold, windy, & it rained most of night. April 3 Catch: 1/4 mi. S Jacumba - Dipodomys agilis - 1 Jacumba - Wh. cr. Sparrow - 1 1 mi. W Jacumba - Dipodomys agilis - 1 Peromyscus maniculatus - 4 3 mi. NW " - Nestoma leucola - 1 P. maniculatus - 2 P. eremicus - 5 After skimming most of our catch we headed back down the mt. to the E. It was evidently still raining & blowing when we left ~ 1130. We continued on US 80 into El Centro where we had lunch & bought some groceries. The irrigation & agricultural area starts 12 mi. W of the El Centro city limits. Just W. of El Campo we saw 15+ Hudsonian Curlews 50+ Ring N. Gulls & a large flock of Red-wings.
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LIDICKER 1958 (April 3 cont.) Then we returned to Acotillo & the dirt rd. toward Vallecito Valley. We stopped a Box Willow Canyon Range Sta. to ask about La Puerta Valley. But the Ranger had never heard of it so we left & went back a short distance to where a dirt rd. took off to the South. We decided to follow it & it turned out that it went into Carizzo Canyon. We followed this 4 wheel dr. rd. ~ 5.6 mi. S into Carizzo Canyon. The road was very muddy in some places & deep sand in others. Saw 1 wood runner along way. We finally came to some real muddy places & had to stop. Got the wagon to rain again & the wind to blow so we made camp between 2 mesquite trees in the partial protection of a low ridge. We had to carry our equipment a short way from the car to camp. Camp = Carizzo Canyon, 6.9 mi. S, 3/10 mi. & Mountain Palm Springs. Set 73 trap around camp - mostly in sandy wash area, but also on rocky slopes. Was a little dipso sign. Rained & wind blew most of night. April 4 Catch: Dipodomys merriami - 1 Perognathus - 2 Perognathus penicillatus - 3 P. longimembris - 1 Perognathus eximius - 11
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LIDICKEN 1958 (April 4 cont.) Nestoma Lepida - 1 It rained intermittently all morning. We skinned our animals & prepared to leave. We had considerable difficulty turning the car around & got stuck 6-7 times before we had it around. This took most of the afternoon. On the way back to the main road we saw a Black Phoebe, a no. of Bandeled Quail, & several Citellus Lemurinus, & a Syphilarius. Then we went E to Ocotillo & W on US 80 toward San Diego. Just W of Tecate Pass at about 3900' we ran into snow. We got into San Diego about 2130, took the ferry across the bay ($45) to Coronado & went S to Silver Strand Beach Sta. Park. Then we spent about 1 1/2 hr. walking along the beach looking for grunion. The moon was full & the tide was very high but we saw no grunion. We stayed that night in a hotel in Coronado. It did not rain! April 5 Went to San Diego Zoo & spent morning there. Ran into Marler & party there & also the Jack Neffo. At 1230 we headed N on US 395. We stopped near Lake Hodges to skin some more animals & to eat lunch. We saw zer. Citellus Beechyi here. Also saw 1 just N of Escondido. 8.4 mi. N of Pt. with Calif 71 (going E) the
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LIDICKER 1958 (April 5 cont.) road goes up into brush covered low hills; the brush is quite thick, but conceivably this could be dipso habitat. 16.3 mi N of the jet 91 goes up into a 2nd group of low hills. Here the brush is lower than scattered and this is probably better dipso habitat; there is considerable grass however. At [illegible] mi. 38.9 mi. N of jet. rd. descends into a lower valley. Took US 60 W out of Riverside & jet. with US 99 in Los Angeles. We took this N. The road detoured thru Newhall because of a 5'ft. deep mud slide on 99. We spent the night just S of Bakersfield. Rainfall had a wind blew hard that night. April 6 Continued to Berkeley via US 99, Calif 132, Calif. 33, US 50, Calif. 21 & finally 24. Arr. Berkeley at 1552. Traveled total of 1710 mi.
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21 DICKER 1958 Mexican Expedition - summer 1958 June 14 to July 27 PERSONEL: WZL NAOMI I. LIDICKER PETER R. MARLEN JUDITH G. MARLEN June 14 Left Berkeley ~ 1000, odometer reading = 14748 Took US 50 to beyond Tracy, Calif., 33+132 to Modesto + US 99 to Bakersfield. US 466 thru Teakchapi Pass to jct 395 -> S to ~ 2 mi S of Adelanto where we camped. June 15 Took US 66+91 to US [illegible] 99 -> El Centro. US 80 -> had lunch on Mexican side of R. Amv. Came E & jct with Calif. 98. -> continued S Yuma + Gila Bend; Ariz 84 to Tucson. Av. ~ 1830. June 16-18 - Meetings of the Amv. Soc. of Mammalogists in Tucson. June 19 Left Tucson ~ 0800 on US 80 -> Benson, About 5 mi. W of Benson we noticed that we lacked the correct map, was mostly yucca mesquite or growth. Beyond Benson we continued on Ariz. 86 to Willcox & N Benson to rd. gets up
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LIDICKER 1958 (June 19 cont.) to ~ 5000 ft - Buddles, mosquito - not good hermiain habitat, but possibly on a farm. The th rd. descends st. wit mosquite, yucca + grass desert. About 10 mi. W Wilcox ca see huge valley to SE; the begin to descend further it large valley to E, 2 mi. W Wilcox - gives plain with some shrubs + yuccas . It looks like good hermiain habitat just W [illegible] Do Cabezos wit mosquite climbs with many canyons, etc. We turned SE at W illeox turned Do Cabezos + Portal. 5 mi. E of Do Cabezos we saw [illegible] 3-4 juns, Citellus sppilosoma . Also along this stretch we saw lots of horned larks, sev. skates + murres spectabilis - moths, a few scoter moths on oak, winter held our & large turkey today spinned on across road. A little higher we saw another which looked like Sciurus argores . After lunch away from farm - saw 1 Myarchus sp. Continued our int. to SW. Ranch Stn. Spent night here June 20 Around camp saw 1 chipmunk, Vires solitaria another small sk., sk. card Sppilogenys + 4+ Wh. W. Nuthatch. Left Stn. & continued E. 2 mi. of Portal is mud grass, short mosquite + agave. Saw 2 Sppilogenys which looked like auduboni Ran into moderate pairs or desert's E of Portal. Once on US 80 we felt heavy rains. Az
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DICKER 1958 (June 20 cont.) offroad Peloncillo Mts. there is heavy Larrea cover with some yucca + agave; slopes of ints. drier [illegible] Also dry on E slope which descends into desert which seems al drier than that on W side - more cactus + ocotillo. W of Lordsburg it becomes grassy with few shrubs. Stopped in Lordsburg to get left rear wheel bearing replaced - From Lordsburg -> Deming: law scattered shrubs + quite dry. E of Deming: flat, noticed a stand of Larrea this is fairly open with grass + widely scattered mesquite! E of Akela gets drier with lots of yucca. Continued S to El Paso & after loading a few supplies we went thru customs & into Juarez. By this time it was about 2000. We changed some money in Juarez & continued S. It began raining in Juarez & continued intermittally all night; we camped just off the train rd. just N of old camp at 5 3/4 mi N Sanluyca. Didn't set any traps. June 21 Coach's Knightrail at camp + possibly a Myrarchus; also / Swainson's Hawk. Left camp & continued S 30 mi N Villa Ahumada - noticed H. Larks. At 12 mi N V.A. saw a Myiochus tuberculifer & pi. putter & skrike. S of Villa Al. we saw- a Citellus stalozone . Just S Moctezuma
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(Jun 21 cont) saw spectabilis rondo. About 45 mi S Villa At, saw 2 Swainson's Hawks, an [illegible] Golden Eagle, + a roadrunner. 9 mi further we saw a Prairie Falcon. We saw W. marobarz at 77x90 mi S Villa At. At 93 mi S another Swainson Hawk about v + at 100 mi S a roadrunner carry a lizard + a jr. A Canyon Thrasher, feeding fledglings, also jessably a thrasher. Dr Chichester was did a little stopping. She headed W toward San Morvelos + Cranktonce. About where rd to San Morvelos turns N we saw a burrowing owl. This was 1725- Continued thru Cranktonce W. About 7 mi beyond Cranktonce, we turned S on a dirt rd. into a small canyon + made camp. Set 48 traps along small gulch + up gravelly slope with grass + small shrubs (oak?) + a few small juniper - 2 small juns noted. June 22 Catch: Peromyscus truei - 1 (down N slope) R. singeloti - 2 - top 2 traps on slope. Camp is surrounded by low hills turned with scattered brush + a few trees (some pines). Are some plowed fields in bottom N valley. Set 29 traps along rd. + edge of fields at dips looking holes + in small rocky gulch with Western sign, etc. Also 58 traps in area with heavy small trees, oak, undent sp. A juniper (far) + grass
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DIC KEK 1958 underath Set 58 more trap i see with many small trees, oak, few junipers, & grass underath June 23 Catch: from 29 traps - Peromyscus maniculatus - 1 P. truei - 4 from 58 traps - Sigmodon minimus - 1 along shallow grassy dry gully next to a clump of willow-like shrubs. Sigmodon ochrognathus - 1 shot or ran from live Reithrus in trap - on slope with some shrubs & grass. Reithrodontomy mygalotis - 4 P. maniculatus - 1 P. truei - 1 Perognathus bicipitus - 1 Also caught 1 Thomomys bottae In PM set out 6 traps at dipo-looking holes along field behind camp, 10 traps along small canyon & field edges - mostly dips sets; 8 traps along shallow ravine where caught S. minimus last night; & 56 traps on grassy & stably hillsides W of camp. Set 1 gopher set + j?, one more T. bottae. June 24 Catch:
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LIDICKER 1958 (June 24 cont.) Oryzomy leucogaster -1 Baionys - 1 Peromyscus leofibna -1 After skinning we packed up & left camp (7 mi. WSW Cranktowne) - 1 mi. back to main rd. to Crank townse - saw a ground squirrel along this stretch but couldn't collect him. Bird List for this camp: Emidomats of (Jouily 24?) Cassio's Kingbird Dr. Gk. Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow Lark . Perfous cr. ". Blk. headed Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak W. Meadowlark Brown Thrasher Mockingbird Spotted Towhee Plumbeous Krocotche Mourning Dove Bewicks Wren red th. pigeon? Whorched Raven Scrub jay Red tl. Hawk Violegr. Swallow During our last evening this we thought we heard coyotes howling. We drove a little further W. looking for caves in the bluffs but we didn't find any so we headed E. About 1/2 way to Crank townse we saw what looked
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(June 24 cont.) like a large cave in the hills N to the south, so we stopped & walked over to, but it proved to only a small cuevita with a man camped in it. We continued E. In the area along Gran Morelos the way is real desertty (Ocotillo, etc.) & meriaini is undoubtedly here. Saw a rock squirrel in vicinity of General Frias. In Chihuahua city we turned S. Between Bachimba & Meoquin we saw 2 Mallards in irrigation litch. We stopped to camp that night 15 mi. N Cd. Camargo (15.4 m. by rd. N Cd.C. +.4 mi. E). We set out 96 traps in the desert. Caught a fledged Roadrunner which Peter spotted "freezing" in a mesquite. Had intermittent rain all evening. Heard coyotes in evening. June 25 Catch: Perognathus sp. - 6 Dipodomys merriami - 4 Neotoma alligula - 1 Bird list for area: Curve Bk. Thrshr - 1 (PM) Roadrunner (includi Cactus Wren W. Gnatcatcher Desert Sparrow House Finch Blue Grosbeak resident swallows Pyphiloxia W. Kingbird ? Wh wh. Raven resident small flycatcher
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LIDICKER 1958 (June 25 cont.) Myiarchus sp. (bot. tuberculifer) resident dr. pigeon We continued S, just N of Carrago we saw Kildren Bt, th. Drockle & Bleh Photo. We went SW out of Carrago on the rd. to Valle de Zaragoza . Near the E end of the large Boquilla Reservoir a rd. turns N to Boquilla de Corchoz (1.3 mi.). We continued N of B.de C. another 1.8 mi. by rd. Here a bridge crosses a stream & we camped here (1.5 mi. N Boquilla de Corchoz, 14 mi. SW Ch. Carrago). We set out 75 traps on the dry & rather gravelly slopes in that area. In one spot we found a few clips-looking holes. We also set 3 gopher sets in the greeny area along the stream. Took a bath in some beautiful pools slightly down stream from the bridge. June 2-6 Catch : Paromysus ermineus - 3 Perognathus sp. - 1 Thonomyss lotter - 1 (beautiful reddish color) The gopher seemed of particular interest so about noon & set out 6 more gopher sets & by the time we broke camp about 1400 I had caught 2 more gophers. Then we got up & left camp. We tried to find the gravel rd. to Hidalgo del Parrel
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LIDICKER 1958 (Jun 26 cont.) But couldn't so we returned to Camargo & took highway 45 to Hidalgo del Parral. We went directly N out of Parral on a dirt road & stopped & camped after 3.2 mi (3 mi. NNW Hidalgo del Parral). This is an area of very open brush with scattered spectabilis mounds. We set out 57 traps. The ants were terrible & we retreated on whole line about 2100. Saw sev. bats at dusk. June 27 Catch: Peromyscus eremicus -197. Dipodomys spectabilis -2 D. merriami -1 (bad exter & part Also picked up 1 Cnemidophorus I viscer - unsalvageable) Measurements: ---- 132-38-13; dt.st.dk brown & dzo w/st. which is quite broad; peril gray, actually lighter than canel strips; plantar dusky gray brown & fully ext.; dorsum seems similar to species caught nr. Parral in '56. We broke camp fairly early & returned to Parral & then continued S. We stopped and had lunch along the rd. 7 mi. S Villa Matamoros. We collected a Cnemidophor here & saw sev. others. At 23.7 mi by rd, N of La Resolana we saw a Lepus californicus. Also in this area - sev. W. Meadowlarks & a S Wainson's Hawk. At about 5 mi. S La Resolana the country gets more shrubby - still much grass
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(Jun 27, cont.) with scattered small shrubs + a few small trees. One can see way off to SE & it gets lower in that direction; meriamii could conceivably be here. At 7.5 mi. S La R. yuccas become com., but are still a few junipers. Saw 1 Rd-runner here. At 12 mi. S La R. - junipers scattered (not prominent), spectabilis mounds scattered all along. At 19.7 mi. S, meriamii - looking habitat starts; at 21 mi. S - 1 Lupus californicus; at 25 mi. S road starts leaving good meriamii looking habitat - grassy plain again (this is about 4.5 mi. N La Zorca). Just S of La Zorca saw another Swainson's Hawk + meriamii habitat seems to begin again; off to W seems to be quite a bit of grass. At 5.4 mi. N Casco the plains begin again & it is now meriamii habitat. At 2.7 mi. N Casco Larrea comes into the grassy plain & then disappears again less than a mile further. Just S of Casco there is ocotillo, mesquite, cactus + quite a bit of grass - meriamii is probably present; are also spectabilis mounds. About 2 mi. S Casco Larrea comes in again for short distance. A little further it gets very hilly. At 6.8 mi. S Casco you seem to be at the highest point in these hills & can see long ways to S - whole area could be meriamii habitat - Teguines present,
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LIDICKER 1958 (June 27 cont.) At 12.3 mi. S Casco we saw 3+ Black Vultures - the first of this species noted. 2 mi further the ocotillo begins to thin out & the way is gets scrubbier - this is probably less good merriami- habitat. Beyond this the ocotillo again becomes thick but the shrubs remain thick also. About 18.5 mi. S Casco you cross the Rio Nagoz. About a mile further the country opens up again into what seems similar to that traversed i'5-6 (34 mi. SSE La Zarca). At 1 1/2 mi. S of the Rio Nagos we saw Wh. w. Dove-1, Scalded Quail-1, & Brown Towhee-1. 4 mi. beyond the Rio we saw 2 more Blk. Vultures & 3 Turkey Vult. Just S of La Cuesta a large cave can be seen from the road. The soil is quite gravelly S of La Cuesta, but merriami may be present. Shortly the rd. climbs up out of the valley & up on the top of one of these hills is where we made camp (3.7 mi. by road S La Cuesta). The area is quite gravelly & very dry. We set out 65 traps. June 28 Catch : Penogmus (Prot. Nelsoni) - 5 large skink - 1 Also shot a Crendithorn Bird list for camp: Pythuloxia Brown Towhee
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(june 28 cont.) Cactus Wren Shrike House Finch Mockingbird Varied Bunting Scaled Quail Curve billed Thrasher? Mourning Dove Plumbeous Scractula Blue grackel resident lcterid (prob. red eyed cowbird) Desert Sparrow Turkey Vulture & glancing a flower After skimming we broke camp & continued S. 4.7 mi. beyond Camp rd. begins to descend into large valley, reaches bottom 2 miles further. Saw sev. Wh. nk. Ravens. By 9.5-mi beyond camp you are in possible merriami country again. 4 mi. further veg gets thicker again with low shrubs & ocotillos. This may be merriami habitat but seems a little first thick. 4 mi. still further the road goes thru a small ridge & into an open grassy plain with scattered low shrubs trees. 3 mi. further (.8 mi. N San Juan del Rio) the country becomes scrubby, open, & very gravelly. 1.6 mi S San Juan del Rio # agricultural areas begin ; West th. Cerros. About 10 mi. S San J.del Rio an area begins & stretches for 5 mi. with abundant beaver tail cactus. Then there is open plain country again with widely scattered shrubs. At about 1 mi. N Cerro Zardo we stopped to eat lunch along the road & shot 1 ground squirrel. Saw a Red-wing around Cerro Zardo. At 9.3 mi. S Cerro Zardo we
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LIDICKER 1958 (June 28 cont.) or lake with young borders. found a yearling, which had 1 Oray. Cormorant on it; we also saw a singing rock Wren. We noticed the cormorants' small size & yellow throat patch. At 5.7 mi. S of Murillo's we saw a large flock of Black Swifts. In Durango we got our flat fixed, bought a few supplies & then headed W toward El Salto. As we approached El Salto it began to rain hard & this continued for most of the afternoon. We found that the main road was blocked about 1 mi beyond El Salto because of work outs & the road was detoured over the
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L DICKER 1958 (June 29 cont.) clanage to where it fell off into a huge canyon. Looking down we had a good look at a gray fox which trotted by. We collected one green hybrid, shot a bunch of [illegible] and collected 1 beautiful gray hybrid with lemon yellow on the underside of the femora which matched perfectly the granite rocks of that area. The one we caught we only saw because we caught a glimpse of movement on a rock & then couldn't see what we had seen until we scrutinized the rock very carefully. We saw 1 other individual of this species, but weren't able to catch him. Set 42 traps along moderately rocky pine forest slope + also 16 traps along the rocky wall of a small RR (abandoned) cut. June 30 Catch: Pteromyces truii - 4 from 42 traps 2 " 16 " Shot 1 Entamias along RR cut. In afternoon we set out 30 traps along this cut, 35 along rocky slope of pine forest. (cont.) next p) July 1 Catch: RR cut - Neotoma - 1 jwr. Entamia - 1 P. truii - 2 slope - P. truii - 2 In addition, shot 1 more Entamia (chickimoca)
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LIDICKER 1958 on the W side of camp + an excellent flycatcher with a prominent crest (which turned out to be Contopus pertinax). I also sketched a eye cottontail which a missionary had given me. June 30 (cont.) - Dr PM, Marler + I drove N of Mil Drias as far as we could & then walked further. We were looking for San Juan & the trench grass habitat of Xerochryza. We finally found what has to be the spot & explored it thoroughly - interrupted by occasional rain showers. Although we saw lots of Striped Sparrus we saw no Xerochryza. July 1 (cont.) - We went back N of Mil Drias & while Marler walked N to the trench-grass area to record, I set traps along the side of a beautiful canyon on the W side of the bridge over a large rushing stream where we saw a Water Ouzel. The walls of this canyon are covered with quite lush vegetation including Cornus. I set 50 traps on the S side of the stream & 32 on the N. Also saw a Catillus variegatus just N of the bridge. July 2 Catch: Neotoma - 2 Peromyscus sp 2 - 8 (difficile) Sorex - 3
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 2 cont.) Mephitis mephitis - 1 (caught in rat trap by [foot]). Dr PM we went back & reset & baited these 82 traps; saw another rock squirrel on the S ridge of the canyon. Then set 30 traps along a rocky ledge in the pine forest SW of camp (I had seen chipmunks here before & shot 1 on July 1). Heard rats in evening, but wasn't able to get any. Marlo caught a large alligator lizard during PM. July 3 Catch: canyon (1 1/2 mi. NW Mil Dies) Neotoma - 2 (1 yy.) Sorex - 2 Peromyscus sp. 2 - 2 (1 yy. released). 30 traps nr. camp - Peromyscus sp 1 - 1 Peromyscus sp 3 - 2 (large, thick tailed; from rocky outcrop - one had pulled trap over 100 ft down the slope; the other had pulled trap way back into hole in rock). Shot 1 yy. Strylilogus. On the way back for trapsite N of Mil Dies I shot a rock squirrel at 1 mi. NNW Mil Dies. After skiing around Marlo & I drove into El Salto for water & then we continued E to find a new trapsite. We turned N off main rd. on to a dirt road to some Nelsonia
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Bird List in Mil Dias area : Arizona Junco - almed. Chipping Sparrow Striped Sparrow W. Bluebird Rock Wren Olive Warbler Stelles' Jay Lobber Rocked [illegible] Cove's Flycatcher ( Contopus pertinax ) Painted Redstart ( PM.) Hairy Woodpecker Brown Towhee Cassin's Kingbird Empidonax sp. Black Phoebe Killdeer Redwing ( San Juan mask ) Water Ouget Violet gr. S Wollens Black Swifts Brown Creeper Crecent Chested Warble ( Vermivora superilis ) Audubon's Warble ( PM) Raven Whip-paw-wild-like cal head sev. over sev, screech owl calls head. White-eared Hummingbird
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 3 cont.) asphalt pits. We collected a Thamnophis, got soaked by a hard rain & set out 5-6 trip in a woodlnd with a fair cut (?) what looks like an ericaeae shrub; we also found toads (2 mi. NE El Salto). We then returned to camp. Found a few lob this evening also. MAP OF MIL DIAS AREA - not to scale SAN JUAN round grass area C. variegatus seen here trapaitea (1/2 mi. NW Mil Dias) C. variegatus seen here 1/2 mi. C. variegatus shot here RIO MIL DIAS large cienega small cut abandoned RR *< camp site 8/10 mi. main rd. EL SALTO
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LIDICKER 1958 July 4 Broke camp & then jicked up traps. Catch: Peromyscus truei - 8 ; also saw 1 jav. running around in daylight ; saved only 6 adults - these gutted. We also caught another Thamnophis. The gas station at El Salto was out of gas so we looked for Durango on about 1/2 tank; "replenish overdrive" got me in. In Durango we bought supplies & looked up the local representative of our insurance co. to see if we could retrieve anything on a new tire stolen at Mil Dios. No luck - our policy excepted all theft except the whole car. We headed south at 1715. The desert in this area consists of high shrub with little to much grass. At about 15 mi. S Durango the road starts to climb a little; here there is much crevetail, scattered mesquite & the hills are quite rocky. At 2.5 mi. N Nombre de Dios the road goes down into a huge valley where there is a river & a small town. This valley does not look like serranai habitat. At 4.6 mi. S Nombre de Dios the shrubs become well spaced & this might possibly be serranai habitat but there is considerable short grass. 5.6 mi. S Nombre de Dios ( 5 1/2 mi. SE N de D) I shot a Citellas. At 17.8 mi. by rd, from N de Dios we went off on a side road to
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LIDICKER 1958 camp (17 mi. SE Nombro de Dios). This is just 2.6 mi. N. of the jet. to Villa Guerrero. Here we set 30 traps along the limsy side of a ditch about 6 ft. deep ; 30 traps in desert area nearly which consisted mainly of clumps of beavertail & some mesquite, + 15 traps in follow field in which the veg. was ( - 1 1/2 ft. tall. Caught 1 small Bufo's around camp that evening. July 5 Catch : 1 Scaphisopus Also caught 1 more Bufo's. We noticed several large carnivore done in the beavertail area. After much effort I shot a Rinophila totteri which was quite common around camp. Bird List for Camp area : Meadowlark Duca Dove Morning Dove Curve Be. Thrasher Bennicks Wren Brown Towhee Botteris Sparrow Packed up & left shortly after noon. The state boundary is 9 mi. beyond the jet. to Villa Guerrero. We didn't see anything that looked like possible mammal habitat until about 26 mi. beyond Sombrete. This habitat stretched for about 1 mi. to just beyond an undulant. rio. 4 mi. beyond
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(Day 5 cont.) This river we again hit a 3.5 mi. stretch which appeared to be generally suitable to merriami. After this it seemed a bit too thick & grassy. 1/2 mi. beyond Fresnoillo there is a good gravel rd. going E to Estacion de Fresnoillo. We drove down this rd. & just 3 mi. from the jet, we stopped to look around & found some old merriami sign. This was about the first area that looked suitable. At 4.6 mi. from the jet, we turned N on a dirt rd. for about 1/2 mi. & camped (4 1/2 mi. E Fresnoillo). This is actually only ~1/2 mi. outside of Est. de Fresnoillo. It is quite open desert, but with some grass in patches. We set 94 traps in this area & shot 1 yg. Citellus. We saw no Lute that evening. Skinned the Botton's Sparrow. July 6 Catch: Dipodomys merriami - 8 Dipodomys ordi - 1 Perognathus maniculatus - 3 Perognathus sp. - 5 (1 thrown away + 1 skull only) Citellus - 2 ad. Mus musculus - 1 Left out 9 traps for Citellus; ran line at 1500 & caught 1 more cd. + 2 yg. (1 yg. thrown away). I was fairly sick all day & so Peter skinned 4 animals. Ran Citellus traps again in evening - got 2 yg. in 1 trap + 1 other yg.
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LIDICKER 1958 one trip was missing. Set 48 traps for meriain + along a weedy shallow ditch. Saw 1 Skylagz. Only birds noticed here were Desert Sparrow, Shrike, + Raven. July 7 Catch: (picked up all trips) Dipodomys merriami -4 "spectabilis -1 Perognathus sp. -2 Citellus -1 ad. Paromyscus maniculatus -1 Skinned animals + then broke camp, continued 5. It looks as if merriami may continue W to set 1 mi E of jet, with main rd. Then it no longer looks like merriami habitat until 6.7 mi. 5 of the jet. When for 1 mi. it looks like possibly merriami habitat. Beyond this it is too grassy with much cultivation. On this area there is a large Joshua tree-like yucca which is very tree like. 2.3 mi. S of Calera de Victor Rosales there is possibly some merriami habitat in a few open places, but is not too good. At Morelos (8 mi. beyond Calera de V.R.) there is a good side road goning E. 6.7 mi further is the region of Jesus de Garcia Salivos there are rolling hills with much gravel but it is conceivable that merriami could be here. At 2.1 mi. N Ojo Caliente there is a
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(July 7 cont.) Good gravel road going E - apparently the road to Loe Prioz. 12.7 mi. N of Rincon de Rono, Agyz. is Loe Adomoz; 10.1 mi. N is Cozio; 6.5 mi. N there is a side road going E. 2/10 mi. S Rincon de Rono ther is another gravel road Going E toward the mts. & the town of Tepezala'. About 1 1/4 mi. E of the jet, we saw 2 Bot-white which had very rusty sides; also a jr. of Vermillion Flycatcher, Boot & Drackle & Whisked Raven. 2.7 mi. E of the jet, in Estacion Rincon de Ronoa, Barn Swallows here. 1.9 mi. E East, R. de R. is San Antonio Apuyuan. E of here we noted Shrike, Mourning Doves & Spectabils hawks. 3.9 mi. E of San Ant. Apuyan the road begins to climb gradually & again becomes very common; the difference is that of a quite different habitat from that of the valley; more Spectabilis Mounds, Shrike, Sparrow Hawk, Brown Towlee & Barn Swallows. 5.2 mi. E of San Ant. Apuyon the road comes to Tepezala'. We continued E into the mountains until we came to a place where a culvert had been worked out. We cut up the hill to the side where we got on another dirt road which led E to a small, mostly deserted copper mining town (San Pedro de Cobre) which is nestled against the side of the highest peak in the area - at least as far as we could see.
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(july 2 cont.) We set up camp a short distance W of San Pedro in a cut through a hill. Set 45 traps in a small canyon with considerable mesquite + shade in bottom. Traps set at dusk + after dark. Saw sev. bats feeding in the bottom of the canyon, but wasn't able to get any. There are numerous mine shafts in this area. Heard a thrasher of some sort; saw Rock Wren, [illegible] a refugee called sparrows I saw bird v heard a flicker. Heard coyote howl during night. July 8 Catch: Peromyscus sp - 7 1 tail of Perognathus (Chaetodipus) sp. Bird list for day: Curve billed Thrasher wvident hummer Wh. fronted Dove? Rufous cr. Sparrow Mockingbird Desert Sparrow Rock Wren Black chinned Sparrow Mourning Dove Raven Brown Towhee Cactus Wren (PM) Bewicks Wren Verdin (PM) House Finch Scott's Oriole meadowlark Canyon Wren Also saw 1 study th. ground squirrel of some sort + 1 Sybillagus. Set 21 traps along dry brushy + thorny gully above camp; 15 traps along slope with short
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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
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 9 cont.) Paromyscus - 1 "timber" like hill - Dipodomys ornatus - 1 Paromyscus - 1 After skinning, Naomi + I explored a large number of abandoned mine shafts in the area including some very large ones on the slopes quite high above San Pedro. From this vantage point you get the impression that the highest peak in the area isn't too much higher. We saw only 2 Coryphorhinus townsendii + collected one of these. Birds noted: Flicker, Atk. Goldfinch, Prairie Falcon, Scrub Dove (PM), Wkt. w. Dove (PM) + resident small dove (WL). We reset the stakes + rat traps on "timber" hill + set 49 more traps there, we also made 3 wood set sets. Then we set 26 traps in a beavertail + rabine thicket N of camp + 29 mus. spec. + [illegible] on the dry slopes below camp. We were hoping to get some more D. ornatus. In addition we had 3 Newton's sets in the more vegetated bottom of the gully + we reset the 1 rat trap behind Camp. Total traps = 115. Saw a few bats in evening but wasn't able to get any. July 10 Catch: below camp - dry slopes - Reithrodontomys - 1
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DICKER 1958 (july 10 cont.) Perognathus - 1 (dk.) beavetail area - Peromyscus - 6 Perognathus - 4 rat trap behind camp - Peromyscus - 1 old ♂ + 1 old ♀ caught together. "turda" area - Peromyscus - 3 (2 long eared, 1 th. eared) Perognathus - 7 Neotoma - 1 After skinning we jacked up left camp: it rained a good part of the day so we didn't get away until about 1730. 2.1 mi. W η Tofazali saw spectabilis mondos. 3/4 mi. E San Ant. Afugan saw a jr. η Blue Groobanks. Noticed road going S at Est. Rincon de Rotos. At about 1.2 mi. E η got with main rd. we turned S for about a tenth of a mi. on another dirt rd. Here we camped + set out 61 traps at dusk - mainly in gromy lowland areas + in open desert area with beavetail, mosquitoes, etc. After dinner while it was raining lightly Peter + I walked along the dike of an irrigation canal + I caught 2 small Perognathus. We tend a number of frogs but didn't get any. It rained all night. July 11 Catch: nothing
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(July 11 cont.) I skinned the 2 Paragettus caught the night before & then wandered around looking for suitable trap sites. Birds seen: Blue Grosbeak Arth. Goldfinch Black cr, Nt. Heron - 1 resident nt. Herons - 6 Yellowthroat - ser, & singing Empidonax sp. (land Bobwhite (very reddish side) Raven (with nearly fledged ygs) Blue Woodpecker Ladder-backed Woodpecker Curve-billed Thrasher resident Hummer Inca Dove Mourning Dove Berich's Wren - com. Bust of Quail Vermilion Flycatcher - com. Black Phoebe Say's Phoebe Meadowlark Shrike Brown Towhee Red St. Flicker Mockingbird Barn Swallow Eng. Sparrow Wh. w. Dove Mexican Duck - 2 Found a dead M. macroura megalotis which was much too far gone to save but I saved the skull. Peter shot a Wh. w. Dave which I skinned in the afternoon. We also saw, Sylvia sp. & 1 Lepus californicus. In late afternoon we heard a ground squirrel whistle, but couldn't locate it. I also shot a Mourning Dove & a Golden-fronted Woodpecker & skinned the M.Dav. Peter shot 2 more Wh w. Daves & skinned one. We also caught 2 Thrushes & -- shot a
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LIDICKEN 1958 (July 11 cont.) Catch ? Ctenodactylus & 1 Sceloporus. Set out 51 traps in open area of mesquite & grass; 34 traps in heavy bunch grass & th brushy border of a shallow ditch; 13 traps on a relatively open dike with moderate no. of holes, etc.; 15 traps in grass & brush along dike; & 16 traps along an open dike with some bunch grass. Total traps = 129. Went looking after dark & caught 1 Rana; heard Microhyla July 12 Catch: Perognathus - 1 (in 51 traps in mesquite) (½ mi. S, ¼ mi. E Rincon de Ramos). We left out 1 rat trap for ground squirrel but didn't get any. Skinned the 1 mouse & the golden for woodpecker shot evening before. Peter saw Derby Flycatcher twice & I heard him once yesterday; (other) Picked up a Kinosternon in the clover by irrigation camp & looked for Agassiziensis. 2.6 mi. S of ditch, saw B. jet, with main rd. is turn of Salitillo (sp?). 2.5 mi further is Pabellon de Hidalgo & a road leading W to some low hills. 3/4 mi further is paved rd. going E, gravel rd. going W; 5 mi, further is San Francisco. 2.2 mi. S San Francisco we noticed a deceptively looking spot that may be good for dipsos. Beginning 3.5 mi. N of the Loreto rd. Turnoff & stretching for .7 mi is another area that may be good dipso habitat. The Loreto turnoff is 8.1 mi. S of San Francisco. 1.3 mi. S of Loreto turnoff we
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 12 cont.) Noticed a gravel road to the W. 1/3 mi. farther is Club Campestre. After buying some supplies in Aguascalientes we headed W on the rd. to Calvillo. Shortly W of the city limits of Agzc. we ran into a road block. This was apparently a detour to the N, but off to the S ran a rough + muddy dirt road to Villa Hidalgo so we took that. A little over 5 mi. from the Agzc. city limits we came to some sort of an institution that we learned was called Cindad de los Ninos. It was located next to a small shallow lake with much marshy vegetation around it, + the whole aspect looked very tropical. We continued about 1/2 of a mi farther where we camped on a fairly dry slope. About 1/2 of a mile beyond our camp the dirt rd. we were on junctioned with the main gravel road connecting the Calvillo rd. with Villa Hidalgo. Set 49 traps in fairly thick brushy cover, on a moderately rocky slope + along + rock wall + outcropping. Was lots of Neotoma signs in the rock wall. Set 40 traps on more open flat, but still fairly thick - mesquite, mod. grass, etc. Finally we set 15 traps along a brushy + rocky edge to the cleared road side. Total traps = 102. Saw 1 Sylvilagus. Also saw quite a few nighthawks + Barn Swallows + at one point a large no. of toll
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Camp at \frac{1}{2} mi. NW Ciudad de los Niños,\n7 mi. WSW Aguas Calientes, A z sc., Mexico.\nJuly 13, 1958\nRoad in distance is heading S toward\nVilla Hidalgo.
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IDICKER 1958 This page is out of sequence. SAN DIEGO COUNTY EXPEDITION Sept. 7 - Sept. 14 - with Alan C. Zeigler & Dick E. Graham Sept. 7 Left Berkeley about 2300 + headed toward San Diego Co on US 50 + 99. Sept. 8 Arrived in Bakersfield about 0530; took US 416 to Mohave, then US 6 to Palmdale & Calif. 138 to join with US 395. Took US 99 S to Salton Sea Desert. We noticed that the narrowest point between the Santa Rosa Mtns & the Salton Sea was at Travertine Rock, just S of the Imperial Co. line. We explored the area from here to about 12 mi. S of Truckhaven. We finally stopped + set up camp 4 mi. N, 4 1/2 mi. W Truckhaven, 33 mi. NW Kane Spring. This is slightly less than a mile down a dirt rd. to the W which junctions with the main rd. about 5 mi. N Truckhaven. After that drove S of Truckhaven + set out about 87 traps in desert or wide of highway. This is one of the most vegetated areas we could find in this extremely desolate desert. There was some dips siren here + some holes which were probably those of ground squirrels. There returned + set 39 traps near join of highway & camp rd. (4 mi. N, 3 1/2 mi. W Truckhaven). There was a little dips siren here also +
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LIDICKER 1958 Sparrows were flying & whirling around together in 1 huge flock. Also saw a Long tI. Chat near Cd. de los Niños. July 13 Catch: 40 trps on fled - Dipolomp ornatus - 2 Peognathus - 1 (flem type) NW Cinde de Niños, 7 mi. WSW rocalientes. 15 in brush along rd. - Peognathus - 1 (Chaetodipus) 47 on slope - Peognathus - 4 ('') Reitholontomy - 1 (in red wall) All the wool nest trps had been spring, but they caught nothing. After skinning we walked down to Cd. de los Niños & explored the edges of the lake a bit. Saw saw. snakes & frogs which we couldn't get. Around the margins of the lake were thousands of transforming frogs & we picked up a few of these. Bird list for area: Bottles Sparrow Rufous cr. Sparrow Cactus Wren Black ch. '' Berichs " Desert Sparrow Canyon 3 " Brown Towhee Blue Grosbeak English Sparrow Turkey Vulture Cassin's Kingbird Ash, Goldpich Vermillion Flycatcher Chat Barn Swallow resident Yellow Warbler
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 13 cont.) Curve bl. Thrasher Boast bl. Druckle Zila Woodpecker Fliden (heard) Ladder bk. Woodpecker resident hummer Road runner, Sparrow Hawk - 2 Dca Dove Wh w. Dove Scaled Quail Killdeer (PM) Mourning Dove undest. dh pigeon Golden fr. Woodpecker Raven Sora Also heard a ground squirrel. Broke camp shortly afternoon & headed W. It was 3.2 mi. from jet, with Villa (Hidelys road to jet, with Colvillo rd (num. 50). The km.8 marker is just W. of this latter jet. 3 mi. beyond this jet we met the other end of the detour to the N. 4.6 mi. W of jet: with V. /Hidelys rd. the road reaches the peak of the first ridge. There is a fair sized hole to the N + a large valley opens up to the W+N. 1.9 mi. farther there is a small poblado. There is stiff desert vegetation in this area, but grass seems to be getting thicker. At km. 21 there is more open scrub land with grass beneath. 3.6 mi beyond the poblado the road curves N; at km. 24 it jogs back again slightly & at km 25 it turns a little S - climbing gradually. Just beyond km. 26 the road reaches its highest point in that area. 5 mi beyond the poblado there is
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 13 cont.) A canyon off to the left with almost woodland type of vegetation. 1.8 mi. further the road descends; the vegetation here consists of scattered tall shrubs with much grass & herbaceous vegetation on the ground. 1.2 mi. still further there are a few semi- cacti on the hillside to the left, a large valley to the NW ahead. This large valley no longer looks like dips country - not even ornatus. The vegetation is thick, but there are still yuccas & prickly pears, also much oak & other broad leaved trees; slope to left could almost be called a woodland. 7/10 of mi. E & N a joblote (km. 38) which is probably Baguillo, there is a small lake to the N. Near the town we saw a Kildeer. About 6 mi. beyond the town the road begins to descend again into another large valley to the W. 4 mi. W of the town above is another town. Here we noticed House Finches. Calvillo is 4.1 mi. beyond this last town. We continued beyond Calvillo about 5.5 mi. where we turned N on a dirt road which descended 8/10 mi. to a river which we forded & began to climb up the other side. Here we met Pedro de Loera who apparently lives most of his time in Sary, Durango, but owns orchards in this area etc. He spoke a little English. With him was "Tito" Alberto Martinez who owns a tienda on the main plaza in Calvillo, & several others. We chatted
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 13 cont.) with them over & hour. They assured us that there were lots of bats in some of the old houses in Celinda. We continued .3 mi N of the river & camped. This area was brushy with quite a lot of grass between the shrubs, but was the driest looking area we'd seen since the vicinity of [illegible] the first ridge W of Ariz. We set 84 traps in this brushy area including 12 traps along a stone wall. A small amt. of dipso signs was noticed. Didn't see any bats in evening. July 14 Catch: Dipodomys ornatus -3 Peromyscus -4 Peromyscus maniculatus -2 Peter saw 1 Lepus - tail not noticed, but probably californicus. Shot 1 Crevidothorax while skinning catch. Bird list for camp area: Scaled Quail Brown Towhee Ash. Goldfinch House finch Cactus Wren Bericht's Wren Blue grosbeak Cassin Kingbird ident. dk. dove Gila Woodpecker Ivica Dove Wh. w. Dove Mourning Dove Curve bl. Thrasher Canyon Wren Pygmblossia Mockingbird Barn Swallow Road Runner Vermillion Flycatcher
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 14 cont.) Eng. Sparrow Noticed Bourgainviller on some house near the river. We broke camp & returned to Colivillos. About 3 mi. W Colivillos we saw what was probably a Scotto' Oriole. Once in Colivillos we headed N on & a dirt road to La Labor. About 2.4 mi. N of town we saw a grayish ground squirrel with a short scruffy tail run across the road. About 3 mi. N of Colivillos we saw Golden fr. Woodpecks & Dove Doves & 1 mi. further - Phainoptilus. We followed a river valley for awhile & had to ford the river 4 or 5 times. 5.2 mi. N Colivillos we saw 2 Citellus wongatus run across the road. We camped 9 mi by road N Colivillo near the Rio Larco. This is about 1 km. S La Labor & is where the road crosses from the E to W side of the valley & fords the rio. After spending some time hunting for conejos with a mexicano we set out 100 trap: 30 in a wooded canyon, 25 along a rock wall with tall herbaceous veg. along it, 5 in tall veg. along rd., 20 on wooded slope & 20 on grassy & gravelly slope behind camp - with scattered shrubs (include 5 traps along rock wall). Head a few hrs after dark, but saw none in evening. Caught 1 Byto in camp after dark.
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DICKER 1958 July 15 Catch: grassy & shrubby hillside - Perognathus - 3 + 2 tail wooded canyon - 1 Perognathus tail rock wall - Peromyscus sp. - 2 nothing in other lines Explored several cuencas in the bluffs along the W side of the valley for bats. Found some carnivore droppings, but no bats. Set out 40 traps on shrubby & grassy hillside with 2 broken down stone wall - a little S of camp. Put out 22 traps (including 3 rats) along a tall rock wall with 5 ft. tall herbaceous veg. along 1 side; 15 traps in shorter grass near plowed field; 17 traps in grassy & shrubby area near the river which had sandy & not gravelly soil. Total Traps = 94. Peter saw sev. C. variegatus. Much rain during night. Shot 1 Crexidoptera during day. July 16 Catch: 22 traps along road - Scaphiopus-? 40 traps on veg. slope - Perognathus (Chaetodipus) - 2 " " (florus type) - 1 Liomyx - 1 Nothing in rest of lines. After stinking we broke camp & headed back for Calinilla. Local the people around La Color assured us that
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LIDICKEN 1958 (July 16 cont.) there were jays on the hills directly NW of La Labor, but they could best be reached with a horse. One individual said there were chipmunks there + saw mtnlaid deer. Bird list for La Labor camp area: Wh. earal Hummingbird Roadrunner Turkey Vulture Yellow B. Ancho-1 Scott's Oriole Bottom Sparrow Varied Bunting Brown Towhee Blue Grosbeak Arn. Goldfinch Horned Finch Curve bill Thrasher resident, sapsora locked thrasher Mockingbird Cactus Wren Pyrrhuloxia Bewick's Wren Canyon Wren Phainopepla resident trogon 2 large resident (ruteo?) Raven resident. Tanager (lepetti?) Wh. w. Dove Inca Dove Mourning Dove resident, dk. w. pigeon Scaled Quail Ladderback Woodpecker Golden fr. Woodpecker Long t. Chat Black Phoebe Vermillion Flycatcher Verdin Cassin's Tnighbird (feeding yy?) resident flycatcher Rough Niszed Swallow- feeding yy. At 5 mi by road N Calvillo Peter shot a rock squirrel. We had seen several along the road, at a place 2.4 mi. by road N Calvillo
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LIDICKER 1958 vegetation with brines, etc. A wierd rosette- shaped species of Selaginella is com on the rock walls of this canyon. July 18 CHECK: Desert cent - Diploxyg omatus - 1 Tropical Canyon - Paragraulus - 2 Paromcus sg. - 1 (large, long tailed) Nectours - 1 Nothing in the other lines. Bird list for this complete: Barido's Wren Coppery tailed (Elegant) Trogon (PM) - 2 head only Bob-white (head) Curve be Throcker - T. Vulture Varied Bunting Scaled Quail Blue grosbeak Pyrrhula Verkin Mockingbird Goldfinch After stopping we broke camp & returned to Calillos. We bought some supplies then headed W. We made a abortive attempt to find "Tuta" or Pedro de Lorea so that we could find some bats in town 7.9 mi. by road W of Calillo (7 1/2 mi. WSW) we saw a Rock Squirrel & collected a large Scolopax (torquatus grp). 13.3 mi. by rd. from Calillo we crossed a river; .8 mi further saw a flicker; + at 17.2 mi from Calillos we leaned we were on Zacatecos & that the state line was about
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(July 18 cont.) 8 km back, so turned around & headed back. 11.9 mi. from Calivilla we recorded a Spermog threk. After some more checking we finally found Arroyo Soto which is the state boundary & is about 8.6 mi. by rd. from Calivilla (noted at closer to ? on way back). .3 mi. E of Arroyo Soto - which had flowing water in it - was another nice looking canyon where we camped (1/4 mi. E state boundary, 8mi. 5W Calivillo). Just after we got the tent set up
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 19 cont.) Liomya - 1 (Lady & Shelly are in bottom) Shot a Cremidophorus around camp. After skinning Naomi & I drove the car to La Palma: 1.4 mi. off Arroyo Soto turnoff to S for .5 mi to La Palma. Here we parked the wagon & walked 5 out of town. We continued S 40 min. or more. Collected a Cremidophorus about 1 mi. S La Palma, 13 mi NE Jalpa, Zac. We talked to a number of local residents in this area & none of them knew of any cave nearby although a couple thought there might be some much further to the S in the mountains - which could be seen but were much further than an afternoon walk away. We returned to camp & then walked to Arroyo Soto for a lunch. Earlier another fellow named A. Soto stopped in a blue pickup & chatted. He had lived in Brawley, Calif., & + knew some English. He now lived in Coliillo. Set out 30 trips in canyon & along slopes: 15 trips along a rock wall; 1 set trip by a fresh looking hole along a path; 35 additional trips in the canyon but those mostly in tropical area with lush vegetation; 1 trap by dips looking hole on grossy flat; + finally 20 traps on dry gravelly hillside with some yuccas. Total. traps = 102. Did not see any bats in evening. Saw 1 Catellus variegatus along edge of canyon in afternoon.
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LIDICKER 1958 Also caught + egg Sceloporus Hard rain during night. July 20 Catch: Paroaria - 5 + 1 tail Parompeus - 2 Liornys - 3 Skinned animals + caught 1 gg. Sceloporus. Snake net trap set along path had been strong & dragged about 50 ft. Bird list for camp area: Mex Motmot - 1 (PM) Vermilion Flycatcher Myiarchus sp - with fledgled gg. norbert plain flycatcher - ro eye ring, lucerne flanks, pewee size, nota: speeeee Cassia Kingbird Brown Towhee Blue Grosbeak Varied Bunting (2 broods fledged) House Finch Pyrrhuloxia Ash Goldfinch Trogon (heard only) Vardeni (with gg. + building nest - S y La Palma) Summer Tanager - st in song & on territory Scott's Oriole Mockingbird Curve B Thrasher Wk W. Dove Mourning Dove Inca Dove Wk fronted Dove (S La Palma) Violet g, Swallow Barn Swallows Scaled Quail Horned Owl (heard by Marler) Barrow Hawk Cactus Wren
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(July 20 cont.) in desert, view-like bird (PM) Canyon Wren Barnicks Wren We left camp after lunch & headed back for Calilla. We talked to a kid who posted no around camp. He gave us his name & address as: Santos Jimenez, Jaltriche de adajo, Calillo, Ariz. Mother talked to an old cobber earlier from the same address & he has his name written down also. 4 mi. E of camp we saw another Citeline variageto. 5.6 mi. E we saw a Robinnow & a Scott's Oriole. In Calilla we bought some more supplies, including white gas. We ran into A. Sots who didn't know of any lots in town & also Sgt. H. Mortining who was pretty "high" but bought us a couple of cokes & we chatted awhile. Tito wasn't around. We gave up the idea of finding any lots in town & continued E. 13 mi. E of Calilla we saw another Sparrow Hawk & 2.8 mi. farther - a flicker. We camped just beyond Km marker 26 where the road makes a sharp curve N & you can see Agua calientes in the distance. As noted earlier this is right near the highest point on this roads. There is a small settlement here of only a couple of families called Venaverro (13 mi. W. Agualealientos). Set 128 traps in open area & locally area around camp. This also includes traps set along rock walls & a quite grassy area.
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 20 cont.) There was a small unit of Neotoma signs in the rock walls. This also includes 2 blind steel sets set in the entrance of fox-sized burrows in the rock banks. Saw several Sylvilagus. Heard 1 last in evening going over top. Hard rain all night without any noticeable let up. July 21 Catch: Mus musculus - 3 - all in between vegetation near a rock wall not too far from horses - all 3 from small area. Reithrodontomys - 1 Peromyscus - 1 Bob shot a Sylvilagus & later a rock squirrel. We both saw several Sylvilagus. In afternoon I explored around for better trap sites & collected 2 g.y. Peromyscus & 2 brown tail skunks - skinning both tuxies. Set out 32 traps in an oak grove on the edge of a hill with some rock outcropping, also marganita; 10 traps in rocky area for Reithron (where I caught 1 last night); 1 steel for Neotoma in a rock wall; 35 traps in lovely & relatively open grassy areas - with some dips looking signs; 5 rat traps around camp at dips looking holes; 2 steel sets left out. Total trips 85. Bob shot 2 more Sylvilagus in afternoon. It started raining before I got all my traps out & continued all night - stopped several hrs. before dark. After dark I ran & retrieved
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LIDICKEN 1958 (July 21 cont.) in the oak grove + also the 10 Rattus sets - in the rain. The spoke-feet were out in force + I easily picked up 10, most of which were calling from small pond ; one pair in pelvic amplexus was preserved. 2/2 were calling while floating in the H2O with hind legs sprawling. Sometimes they grasped veg. with their fore feet. Occasionally 2/2 moved about & investigated other individuals. These 10 were left in a plastic bag overnight [crossed out] + by morning many eggs had been shed, a few of which were preserved also. July 22 Catch : Paromyscus sp. - 4 (3 in oak grove - 1 picked up in evening + 1 in brushy area) Scaptioptes = 1 Storing these plus 2 rabbits ; gutted the ground squirrel. Bird list for camp area : Scott's Oriole Rufous cr. Sparrow Meadowlark Botteri Sparrow Black Chinned Sparrow Lark Brown Towhee Ark. Goldfinch Harja Finch Blue Grosbeak Varied Bunting Cactus Wren Rock Wren Canyon Wren Bauch's Wren Vermillion Flycatcher Say's Phoebe Myiarchus sp. Mockingbird Curve bl. Thrasher
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LIDICKER 1958 (Jug 22 cont.) Flicker Golden fr. Woodpecker Arca Dove Wh. w. Dove Morning Dove Black Phoebe Wh. thr. Swift (PM) Violet gr. Swallow Scaled Quail Bst White Horned Lark Vardin Sident, Hummer Roadrunner. Although we didn't catch any lipo at the locality, I feel sure that some species is present (Vardin or ornetus or both). We broke camp after lunch & headed for Aguas Calientes. 10 mi. & ? camp & less than 7 mi from Agoc. we saw another meadowlark. 1.7 mi further we saw a Philosoma - like ground squirrel. 1/2 mi beyond this we heard a Microhylla call, & at 9/10 our mi. (4 mi from Agoc.) we came to a moderate sized lake on which we saw: Coote -100+ Bst. tl. Sprockle Dex. Duck -1 Barn Swallow Ruddy Duck -6 Black Tam ? Jeff at he told us about large meadowlark milos around Cuate, Zac, whil ed MAPACHE. 1.5 mi further we heard another Microhylla. In Aguas Calientes we went to the post office & bought a few groceries. Then we headed N on the trunk E at the Loreto turnoff. Up to about km. marker 7 (from jet - 52 km to Loreto) there is nice scamby desert, then for about 1 mi. there is a stretch with much prickly pear, & then back to scamby desert with some chulla. 7 mi from Act.
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 22 cont.) (km 1) there is a jollazo. km 18 - nice looking [illegible] again; km 20 - spectabilis monda. 13.8 mi. from jct. is town of Santa Maria Gallardo. Still rolling hills with good desert in this area. 1.9 mi. beyond St. M. Gallardo we came to Presa del Llevoso. Beyond this the road follows fairly closely a river valley which is to the N - has cottonwoods along banks, etc. 18.3 mi. from the jct. we came to Viudas de Oriente. Beyond this (km 31-32) there is excellent open desert. By km 33 it gets a little thicker with some mulepas. 22.1 mi. from jct. (km 35) there is a gravel road going S. Km. 37 - strike. 24.7 mi. from jct. is town of Molino Viejo. Beyond this, km. 41.5 seems to be about the highest point on the rd. At km 42 is gravel road going N. 29.3 mi from jct. is Chisosatono (Zac.). Half a mi. beyond here we learned that we were in Zacatecas so we turned around & returned to the vicinity of km. marker 31 to camp. This was 1/1 mi. [illegible] E of Viudas de Oriente (1 mi. N of Viuda de Oriente, 11 mi. SE Rincon de Romo). Set out 92 traps in desert around camp. Head 1 bat in the evening. Just after dusk it began to pour & it continued to pour with strong winds most of night. Peter & I spent well over an hour ditching & draining the tent which was not in a particularly low place. After dinner I ran all my traps & reset them.
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LIDICKER 1958 although it continued to rain. July 23 Cat 4: Dipodomys merriami - 2 Perognathus of - 3 Peromyscus difficilis? - 1 Tropped & shot 2 yg. & 2 ad. Citellus during the morning. Bird list for camp: Brown Towhee Cactus Wren House Finch Ath. Goldfinch Lark B. Sparrow Lucas Dove Mourning Dove Mockingbird Helen Myiarchus sp. Curve Bill Towhee Berich's Wren Desert Sparrow - feeding large yg. Raven Blue Grosbeak Wh. w. Dove Scaled Quail Cedar Bock Woodpecker Camis Knight? Verdin Also saw 3 jack rabbits around camp. We broke camp about noon, returned to Agua Caliente. At km .13 on Loreto rd. saw another Citellus. We stopped briefly at the post office & then headed south on highway 4s? 6.6 mi. N of the state bordering we saw a meadowlark. We continued onto Lagos de Moreno & then took highway 80 toward Guadalajara, 9.1 mi E of Jalostotitlan we saw a large spotted ground squirrel on the road investigating another squashed one. Noticed many
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LIDICKER 1958 hwy oaks just E of Tepalitlan. We stopped to camp at 11 mi. SE Guadalajara in the same place we had camped 2 yrs. ago. This is .6 mi. E of Tatejocos & 4.5 mi. E of Tlaquepaque. It rained intermittently all afternoon & also most of night. During evening Naomi & I skinned our 4 Citellas from last camp. July 24 Saw Darby objects on airmail cover. Broke camp early & headed for Guadalajara .9 mi. beyond Tatejocos we saw a yellow headed blackbird. At camp we had collected 1 Burro & 2 small bugids. We spent about 1 1/2 hrs. in the main market of Guadalajara & then continued W. 19.2 mi. E of Amatitlan the road gets into 2nd growth pines & oaks - especially on the slope on south side of road. By 10.7 mi W Amatitlan, however, you get rid of most of the pines. 4.4 mi. W Amatitan we saw another large ground squirrel like the one seen yesterday near Jalostotitlan. .2 mi. further is km marker 1717. Tequila is 7.9 mi. by road W of Amatitlan, & Magdalena is 12 mi. beyond Tequila. At 3.2 mi E of Magdalena we saw a quail along the road which looked like a bob-white. At 10.1 mi beyond Magdelan we saw -- a white tailed hawk + sev. black vultures. At the jct. of the road to Jala (Nayrit) we saw lots of black vultures. We stopped for gas
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(July 24 cont.) in Tepic & then continued N. At 8.2 mi N Tepic we saw our first Mexican Crow (2). At 23.1 mi N Tepic we saw a large cottonail run across the road. We saw another which didn't look quite so big 7.7 mi farther. 32.7 mi. N Tepic we stopped briefly & I [illegible]: Darby Decoteau resident gray flycatcher with white throat - peninsular White-collared Seedeater - singing blue-black Grosbeak - singing Kingbird Boat-tailed Grackle Mex. Crow resident green parrot .8 mi. further the road crosses the Rio Grande de Santiago. 8.3 mi N of this rio we saw our first Audubon's Caracara, a flock of white faced Parrots (PM) & an unidentified Oriole. 1.9 mi. farther we saw a red bell. Junco & another flock of parrots. At 10.6 mi N of rio - flock of Green Jays & an avi. .3 mi farther - blk. vulture, .2 mi farther - yellow-winged Cacique. 12.5 mi. N of rio the road crosses the Rio San Pedro. 10.6 mi. beyond this we saw a great blue heron & a killdeer. 1.8 mi. farther we saw 2 tree ducks & at 13.8 mi N of the rio a sealed Gnat. 2.7 mi beyond this we saw a red-winged and a flock of parrots which may have been Lilac-crowned (-red forehead & barred wing). 9.9 mi. S of the jet with Navy.12 I saw a large Jay which seemed to be either
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 24 cont.) a green jay or a purplish-backed jay. We continued N of A caporeta & into Sinaloa. We camped 7 mi. SSE Escuinapa. Collected a byrid and a pointed-nouted Bups around camp. July 25 We had a rather miserable night between the heat, high humidity, & mosquitoes. We broke camp early & continued N. Peter saw a red-eyed cowbird around camp. 1.7 mi S of Escuinapa we saw another gt. blue bron & .8 mi from Escuinapa we saw a quail which had a scaly back & seemed dark brown all over. 8.9 mi N Escuinapa - gt. bl. Bron. 5.9 mi. S Agua Caliente we saw a large dark quail with a dark tufted head, dark bill, & with white throat. 4.5 mi. S Villa Union we saw another yellow-winged cacique & 1.2 mi further - down by Flycatcher. 10.4 mi N Villa Union we observed a Shary Egret along the road. We continued N of Mazatlan & about 30 mi. NNW Mazatlan (34.7 mi. S by road Cosala turnoff) & 17.4 mi by rd. N of Tropic of Cancer) we picked up a turtle on the road. 21 mi. further on we got a good look at a Buteo vitidus. 27.8 mi. S Culiacan saw what appeared to be a Dombel's Pseuil. 13.9 mi S Culiacan saw a group of Black Vultures. @ Culiacan we bought a few fruits in the market & had lunch on N side of town. 40.4 mi. N Culiacan I saw a large magpie-like jay with a long
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(Jul 25 cont.) Toward Tail, 3.9 mi S of Guanmuchil we saw 2 more tree ducks & then 18.4 mi N Guanmuchil we saw about 25 black vultures. The town of El Burrian is 22.1 mi N of Guanmuchil. 2.7 mi N El Burrian we noted a meadowlark & 4.2 mi further - about 35 black vultures. 20.4 mi S of the crossing of the Rio del Fuerte we saw a Franklin's Gull, an avocet & a number of resident gulls. 11.2 mi N of the Rio del Fuerte we saw our first White Raven from the West coast, (this was 12.4 mi S of El Carrizo). 44.2 mi S Navojoa we recorded a Sparrow Hawk. About 28 mi N Navojoa there are lots of agave-like plants (fleated?) with grass in between them. Mariani habitat seems to be scarcer than from Navojoa N at least to Fundicion. As you get closer to Cd. Obregon there is lots of open mesquite, but also is lots more herbaceous vegetation & also much cultivated. On the N side of Obregon is is very agricultural agrassy & does not seem to be mariani habitat. On the N side of the Rio Yaqui it reminds me of the country along the Colorado R. near Yuma. Following this is an area of open gravelly desert followed by a thick grassy & scrubby area. Beyond this is open desert again, more sandy also, but still lots of grass & thick areas, some cultivation to at least km. maker 1879 (28.1 mi. S Pitahaya). At this point it seems like mariani
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 25 cont.) country, but is still on the thick side. About here it got too dark for further observation. The general impression is that the Rio Yaqui itself is not much of a barrier to migration but that there is a fairly broad band of relatively uninhabitable habitat along either side of the river. We stopped in Guaymas & ate our 1st only meal out while in Mexico. Then we continued N toward Hermosillo. 85.2 mi. N Pitahaya (byrd) we saw a dead antelope jack on the rd. 14 mi further we stopped & had a good look at a W. Diamondback (Crotalus atrox). We stopped for gas in Hermosillo & continued N almost 25 mi. before camping for the night. There were lots of Antelope jacks seen along the rd. at night. July 26 We got a fairly early start again & continued N. 18.6 mi. S Loschinos we saw our last black vulture for this coast. 10 mi S Loschinos (10.5 mi. byrd.) 48 mi. S Casa Blanca, we picked up a large black colubrid with a reddish belly DOR. Shortly beyond this point we began to notice that Farquiharen splendens began to replace another species of ocella, which had been com. to this point. Also the desert gets more open with more cholla & jalo-verde. By almost 10 mi N Loschinos the other species of ocellus is pretty well gone - still a few. At 17.8 mi. S
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LIDICKER 1958 (July 26 cont.) Casa Blanca (17 mi. S Casa Blanca) we picked up a large blue striped colubrid DOR. 1/2 mi. further we saw a rock squirrel. 12.9 mi S Casa Blanca Larrea opened & was almost solid in patches. 1.2 mi. further we noticed our first saguaro. 6.4 mi. S Casa Blanca - no longer any Larrea but instead the habitat is very open with scattered low mesquite & some short grass. Saw an oriole here which seemed to be a Bullock's. 2.3 mi. N of Casa Blanca is Estacion Llano. Just N of here there is a thick stand of Larrea - then back to open scrub again. About 8.3 mi. S Santa Ana there is much Larrea & some jalo verde. 7 mi further the desert gets more gravelly with a few saguaros, but still much Larrea & cholla. To 11.2 mi. from Santa Ana to Magdalena. (in this stretch) Here, the slopes along the Magdalena Valley are very gravelly & not good dips habitat. There may be a few good areas in the uncultivated parts of the valley. Even the flat areas are quite gravelly & soil seems darker. There is no obvious change in the vegetation. The whole area around Magdalena is hilly with medium dark gravelly soil. Later it becomes fairly open with jalo soil, but is still hilly, moderately gravelly & with some grass. We stopped in Nogales for little over an hour to take a look at the turista shops. Then we went through customs & into the U.S. This was about 1230. We continued N on
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(July 26 cont.) US 89 to Tucson, Country slopes N very gradually from S of Tubac to vicinity of Continental. At the Pima Co. line the habitat is still fairly grassy, but is changing very gradually. N of the Co. line it seems almost like typical monsoon habitat, but are still some grassier areas. We took Ariz. 84 to Ariz. * 87 to Coolidge & then Mesa. US 60 + 70 to Blythe. Got dark between Wickenburg & Aguila. We continued W of Blythe & finally camped ~ 2/3 of the way to Desert Center. July 27 Had breakfast in Indio, took US 99 to Colton & then US 91 north to Jct. with US 395. Took this to Jct. with 466 & then US 466 to Bakersfield where we had lunch. Took US 99 to Modesto, Calif. 132 + 33 to US 50 near Tracy. Had dinner in Tracy, continued W to Calif. 21 to Walnut Creek & finally Calif. 24 to Berkeley. We got in about 21:30. Speedometer reading 20135 making a total of 5387 miles traveled. Payments to U.C. garage were $275.48 plus $1.95 for stolen tire & $1.90 for tube. Total = $292.38
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LIDICKER 1958 f[illegible] page is out of range See July 13 It was quite early. All 3 ? were set about 154 traps and camp which was fairly gravelly except for a couple ? sandy wastes. Moderate wind, ? lizards sign. All saw one bat in evening. Dick shot 2 Uta, 1 Crotaphytus w[illegible], 1 Holbrookia. All picked up 1 Coleonyx variegatus. Sept. 9 Catch: Paroecetes longimbris - 2 Peromyscus maniculatus - 1 4 mi. N, 3 1/2 mi. W Trackhouse - 2 Paroecetes (Chairodipus) - 3 Peromyscus crinitus - 1 4 mi. N, 4 1/2 mi. W Trackhouse: Paroecetes (Chairodipus) - 11 P. longimbris - 1 Dipodomys merriami - 7 Peromyscus crinitus - 1 Dick picked up a Crotalus cerastes + another Uta. Saw a Snake (only bird). Stirred animals, had lunch + left about 1300. Maximum temperature recorded was 47.5° C. - usually stayed around 45° C. Continued S to get with Calif. 78. Continued W to Scissors Crossing + then S toward Box Canyon. We set about 103 traps at Scissors Crossing about 141 around camp which was sl. less than a mile S of the main rd. on a dirt rd. (3 1/4 mi. S, 2 1/4 mi. E Scissors
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Earthquake Valley, looking NE from camp at 3 1/4 mi S, 2 1/4 mi E Scissors Crossing, San Diego Co., California. September 10, 1958 Earthquake Valley, 3 1/4 mi S, 2 1/4 mi E Scissors Crossing, San Diego Co., California. Sept. 10, 1958
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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
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Earthquake Valley, looking NW from camp at 3 1/4 mi. S. 2 1/4 mi E Scissors Crossing San Diego Co., Calif., Sept. 10, 1958. Camp, looking W, at 3 1/4 mi. S, 2 1/4 mi E. Scissors Crossing, Earthquake Valley, San Diego Co., Calif., Sept. 10, 1958
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DICKER 1958 (Sept. 10 cont.) we pass into another valley (Banner Canyon). The valley has entirely different vegetation from San Jofie & Eastgate valleys & mammari is basally not present. Vegetation includes juniper, manginita, sand orch, grass, etc. Beyond Banner the road climbs continuously & steeply to Julian which is in the pine country. After getting a few supplies in Julian we headed S toward Mt. Laguna. The road all the way to Mt. Laguna is in high coniferous forest. When we passed the head of Cottonwood Canyon we stopped & looked down into Mescan Valley. The canyon is very steep toward its head & definitely not a passage for D. mammari. It got dark shortly past Cottonwood Mt. Laguna. The road descends slightly into Crack Valley (Crack Meadows) which is a grassy meadow surrounded by forest & not mammari habitat. We continued to get with US 80 & than SE about 1 mi. to Blanchiff Campground. Nowhere along this stretch was there any mammari habitat. We set up camp in the campground & set about 40 traps in a small canyon & along a brush covered slope. Sept 11 Picked my traps. Catech: Peromyscus boylii - 6 Prognathus (Chrotolipus) sp. - 1
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(Sept. 11 cont.) I set 2 gopher sets before breakfast. We skinned our catch plus some left over specimens from yesterday. Saw lots of birds around camp including Mt. Chickadee, Plain Titmouse, redstart, warbler, Smt jay, ? tanager(?). Caught no gophers. Left camp ~ 1300. We continued S toward Buckman Springs in the hope of getting gas. We found that no town existed so we turned back toward Pine Valley. At about 8/10 mi. N Buckman Springs the rd. crosses a bridge over a small stream. Here we noticed a mine shaft on the hillside to the NW. We stopped & explored the mine. It contained 1 Cornsparrow, but we were unable to capture it. We continued to Pine Valley, bought gas then went back to Mt. Laguna. Saw lots of gray squirrels along this stretch of road including several DOR. After making local enquiry we headed toward Thing Valley on the Morris Ranch Truck Trail. The road winds down the mountain & finally into Thing Valley (5.9 mi.). We collected several lizards along the road. In Thing Valley the Morris Ranch Truck Trail junctions with the La Posta Truck Trail. We turned N on this & found (~100 gas) a locked gate across the road. We pushed & walked 1/2 mi. N to Thing Ranch & found no one home so we walked back to the truck & camped NB
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IDICKER 1958 the road about 100 yds. 5 of the set. Then we set about 212 traps + 4 gopher sets (8 traps) in the area from camp N to where the road crosses the trail (bridge our work). This is almost 2/3 of the way to Thing Ranch. We collected a few lizards while walking around. There was quite a bit of dipso sign especially along the rd. + on the edges of the sandy washes. At shot 1 goatucker + saw 2 others. We heard three calls frequently (a shot 2 started affair). We saw about 5 small bats but weren't able to collect any. Sept. 12 Got up early + finished up traps. Catch (S end Thing Valley): Dipostomp agilis - 8 + 1 tail tip Thoromops lotteri - 2 Peromysus sp.- 2 P. maniculatus - 15 Micrnotus - 1 One agilis which I caught was in a large open runway in -- a grassy + brushy area. Al caught the Microtus in marshy vegetation around a puddle in the wash. The 2 Peromysus sp. were in the chaparral around camp. Yesterday evening Al caught a Sylvis sp. in an old rotten log, Dick saw sev. Sylvilagus last evening. Left camp about 1300 after skinning animals. Hiked S on La Porte Track Trail
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DICKER 1958 (Sep. 12 cont.) Toward US 80, Rd. goes over low pass S of Camp + then descends all the way to US 80 (7.9 mi). About half way to highway vegetation opens up into open chaparral with chenise-like plant dominant. This type of vegetation continues all the way to Marigante + is probably not meriamii habitat. On US 80 we turned SE toward Marigante. On Marigante we bought a few groceries + then headed N on dirt road (paved for 15+ 1/2 mi) into McCain Valley. We camped about 1/2 way up the valley passed a ranch + just before the rd. forked - the rd. fork going to a second ranch. Here we set 237 traps (including 5 gopher sets of 10 traps) in brushy scrub areas, in overgrown fallow fields, in open chaparral (higher on slopes) + among rock piles. Was moderate ant. I dipso habitat. The general effect was not that I meriamii habitat. At dusk Al shot 1 Myotis scholatus. Later in evening we ran parts of our trap lines + caught up on field notes. Lots of birds seen around camp including huge black j quail. Sep. 13 Catch (3 1/4 mi N Marigante, 3600+ ft, McCain Valley): Dipodomys agilis - 12 Perognathus maniculatus - 15 Perognathus longimembris - 5
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(Sept. 13 cont.) Parospathus (Chetodipus) sp. - 2 Peromyscus californicus ? - 1 ' ' toglii ? - 1 Neotoma lepida - 1 Onychomys torridus - 1 Thomomys bottae - 1 Peromyscus eremicus - 1 After skinning animals we broke camp about 1330. We headed W on US 80, took Calif 79 N to Aguanga. We picked up a Mastophis flagellum DOR about 3.3 mi. S of the Riverside Co. line. We set about 111 traps 1/4 mi. ENE Aguanga. This was on a low sandy ridge which crossed the road to Cochimila - a short distance from the jet. Then we set about 74 traps 1 mi. SE Aguanga (This is along highway 79 it is less than a mile from the jet). Finally we set about 78 traps around our camp which was slightly down a dirt rd. which led SE off the main rd. to Cochimila where there is a bench mark along the rd. (1 1/4 mi. N, 1/3 mi. E Aguanga - or 2 mi. by rd. from jet). Total traps = 263. We watched for bats in evening & saw one & heard several, but weren't able to collect any. When it was nearly dark Al & I saw three owls flying near Cienega Rincon which is the wash just below camp. After dinner we ran our trap line and camp.
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(Sept. 13 cont.) + than the other 2 lines. Upon returning to camp we ran our trap line there for a second time. All traps produced an abundance of animals & many individuals were seen moving around & mating in the brush. We picked up a dead Scylcodon anduloroi along the rd about 1/2 mi. from main st. We were up until 0200 running traps & getting our catch. Sept. 14 Picked up all traps. Catch: Camp (1 1/4 mi. N, 1/3 mi. E Aguas) -- Dipodomys agilis - 3 Dipodomys merriami - 14 Paromys eremicus - 5 Perognathus fallax - 66 Onychomys torridus - 1 Neotoma sp. - 3 Peromyscus maniculatus - 3 1/4 mi. ENE Aguas - 2050+ ft. Dipodomys agilis - 3 Dipodomys merriami - 6 Reithrodontomy neotoma - 2 Perognathus fallax - 44 Paromys eremicus - 12 Peromyscus maniculatus - 6 Onychomys torridus - 2 Neotoma lepida - 2
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LIDICKEN 1958 (Sep. 14 cont.) Parognathus longimbris -1 1 mi. SE Azenza = 2150+19, Dipodomy agilis -1 Dipodomy verraini - 14 Parognathus fallax - 13 (+1 tail) P. longimbris -3 Peromyscus eremicus -7 P. maniculatus -3 Total : Dipodomy agilis -7 " verraini -34 Parognathus fallax -123 Parognathus longimbris -4 Oryzomyx torridus -3 Neotoma sp. -3 N. lepida - 2 Peromyscus maniculatus -12 P. eremicus -24 Reithrodontmy megalotis -2 Grand total =10 species, 214 individuals We gutted the rest of our catch + the land broke camp at 1000. We headed N on Calif. 79, & US 395. We bought dry ice in San Bernardino to help preserve our gutted specimens. Took Calif. 138 to Palmdale US. 6 to Mohave, US 466 to Bakerfield, US 99 to Modesto, Calif. 132 & 33 to US 50 to Calif. 17 in San Leandro. Arr. about 2145.
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LIDICKER 1959 Baja California Trip with NIL March 28 - April 5, 1959 March 28 Left Berkeley about 1800 & took US 101 down Salina Valley. Camped on side rd. a couple miles N of Atascadero. March 29 Continued S on 101 after Redford - San Luis Obispo. Just N of Carpinteria we saw: Green-winged teal - 15 Japes (undent) - many Coot - many Killdeer - 2 Stoveller - 10+ Amer. egret - 12 Saderling - 30+ Red-tailed Hawk - 2+ resident Cormorant - 6 House finch Willet (?) - 1 Along coast between US Naval Air Missile Center & Camillo Beach St. Pk. : Dowitcher - 30+ Willet - 20+ Least Sandpiper - 1 8th Yellowlegs - 1 L. H. Curlew - 1 Bell-bib. Plover - 1 Matted Robin - 20+ Lesser Sandpiper - 20+ Egrets (Amer?) - 2 House Finch Wren-tit (singing from slope) resident Brown-ld. Swallow. Watched a Sceloporus sp. on a rock (brossey back, large scaled, colored - form, long typing tail, yellow on inner surface & forearms, blue
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(Mar. 29 cont.) belly patches) was doing "push-ups" on rock + several times ducked behind the rock curling head to one side as if hiding, & then looked up again. Another individual on an adjacent rock (but not facing above individual) was also doing push-up, but had some streaks on throat + no yellow w blue (?) Visited friends in Santa Monica from about 1430 to about 1730. Continued S on alt. 101 + camped sev. miles E of Solana Beach on rd going to Encinitas. Mar. 30 After breakfast - San Diego we continued to Tijuana & crossed over border without any trouble or delay. Went E on highway 2 toward Mexicali. 14.3 mi. W (by rd.) Rumorosa is a place called La Hechicera. The country gradually rises to the E + the first pines start at about 9 mi. W Rumorosa. Pines are scattered & not large. Much of the area is burned over. The pines get thicker toward Rumorosa but nowhere form a thick forest. 0.9 mi. W Rumorosa is a "town" called Est. Alaska. We went a short distance beyond Rumorosa to where we could see the desert & + then turned around + went 16.2 mi. by rd. W Rumorosa where we set up camp (13 mi. W, 1 mi. N Rumorosa).
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LIDICKEN 1959 Set out 12 gopher traps (about 8 sets), 10 traps along boundary outcrop + 83 in chaparral. This is an area which seems very much like jacumba. Both species of Adenostoma are present, both comm. (the red-leafed species seems commoner in the lower spots). The chaparral is quite tall & +margarita fairly open. It was quite windy & the night was cold. I ran most of the traps after dinner. March 31 Catch: Dipodomys agilis - 2 Keithdomomys - 2 Paronypus tryllii - 2 (both on outcrop) P. maniculatus - 10 (5 of these thrown away - 3 ♀ + 2 ♂ - all seem sexually active) Paronycus californicus - 2 (1 on outcrop) Thomomys bottae - 1 After skinning catch, I filled up all gopher traps & caught 1 more T. bottae & c Dipodomys agilis. These last 2 we gutted before breaking camp. Birds were not too numerous. We noticed my Ravens, Oregon juncos, Scrub jays, Green- Wk Goldfinch & hardly House Finches. Nowhere along the stretch from Tijeras to Ranorozo did there appear to be good D. mariani habitat. Nevertheless, it is conceivable that they may occur rarely, or disperse things,
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LIDICKER 1959 (March 31 cont.) Much of the country from the vicinity of Tecate to the pine belt. Left camp at 14/10 & continued E. The drop from Rumoroso to the desert is very spectacular & steep. The desert flat is reached only 15.6 mi. byrd. from Rumoroso, although there are some sandy wastes extending considerably farther into the mountains. 19.2 mi. Beyond the start of the desert, irrigation begins & life habitat ends. The junction with the San Felipe cutoff is 9.5 mi. further. We went into Mexico for gas & then headed S on highway 5 toward San Felipe. 14.2 mi. S of jet. With Highway 2 turnoff to San Luis irrigation stops & good desert starts. Irrigation starts again at La Puerta & continues for 2.4 mi. Then there is desert for 1.4 mi. after which there is more irrigation & bottomlands along the Rio Hardy. We began to see water birds 9.5 mi. S La Puerta. The road follows along the base of the Sierra El Mayor & in 1 place the river comes within 50 ft. of the ruta with the road in between; in other spots swampped (flooded areas) come right up to the base of the mts. At 18.4 mi. S La Puerta is a small settlement called El Maritimo. Here the river turns eastward & 2.7 mi. further desert starts, although large areas have been flooded & consist of salted mud. At the south end of the Sierra El Mayor the
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LIDICKER 1959 (Mar. 31 cont.) Laguna Salada starts & extends all the way to the north end of the Saino Prieta. There does not seem to be any good dips habitat on the east side of the main road from the beginning of flooded area N of El Mayor to the north end of the Saino Prieta. There was considerable water in the bar pits along the road & in some cases in shallow ponds further back from the road, but for the most part the Laguna Salada consisted of dried mud extending as far as one could see to the east [illegible] that far to the west. There were large numbers of birds & some mosquitoes around & the shallow ponds were covered with insects. On this stretc~ (9.5 mi. S La Puerta to N end Saino Prieta) we saw the following birds: Killdeer - 10 Least Sandpiper - 5+ Lesser Sandp - 9 Pied Bl Grebe - 1 Coot - 60+ Shawny egret - 30+ Western Sandpiper-350+ Vermillion Flycatcher-2 Red-wing - see. Sora - 1 (heard only) Little Bl. Heron ? (2 min.) Ruby duck - 3 Meadowlark - 2+ Eg. Sparrer - 2+ Cliff Swallor-nom. Texas Night Hawk-100+ G. W. Teal - 4000+ (shortly after sunset then R. w. Swallow - see. birds poured out of the into & Amer. Egret - see. scattered over the flats to the east no calls were heard)
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(NOV.31 cont.) St, Bl. Heron -4 Shoveller - 1+ Less, Yellow Legs (?) -1 Blue winged Green teal -2 Pintail -11+ Willet -1 Lamitlcer -108 + mottled duck? -1 It was dark by the time we got to the Swine Point, but we could see large sand dunes on the north end of this range. We had some trouble finding a place to camp, but we finally stopped & set 31 traps after dark. This was in a very gravelly area with very scattered vegetation; some silt in cracks, etc. There was only a little old sign of small mammal activity. Part of the area appeared as if it had been bubblozed some time ago. April 1 Picked up traps; caught nothing & there were no indication of any activity. There was also no birds in this area - 1 possible House Finch flew by in AM; no hawks seen. I skinned the two animals gutted yesterday & we left camp about 0840. Further S in the mountains we watched a Marsh Hawk come in from over the flats to the east (quite high for a Marsh Hawk) & climb up the nest. To the west, dive on a Red-tal. Hawk which was sitting on the crest of the nest. & apparently feeding on something. They both
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(April 1 cont.) Crawled over the crest & we could no longer see them. In places the road follows the E. edge of the ruts & the dried mud flats come right up to the base of the ruts. In places there are small patches of desert along the edge of the ruts & extending up into small draws. Between 2 portions of the San Pinto the road goes west on a relatively flat area. There is a small settlement here called La Ventana. About 3 mi. N of here & also at La Ventana there are fairly good patches of desert at base of ruts. 1.8 mi. S La Ventana, vegetation ends again & the rd. climbs into the second portion of the Sa Pinto. The San Pinto are very gravelly, but digos might occur rarely or locally along the fringes of the ruts or in the valleys. From the SE slopes of the Sa Pinto there is good desert all the way to the ruts to the west & south. Desert also occurs to the east of the road for about 1/4 mi. Immediately south of the San Pinto the soil is still quite gravelly, but is sandy in spots; the desert becomes less & less gravelly as you continue southward. In fact some sign of Digodomyops deserti was seen nearly to the San Pinto, but became much more abundant southward. A dirt road to El Valle de la Trinidad leaves the highway 23.8 mi. S of La Ventana (32.5 mi. N by rd. San Felipe); just 5 & Km marker #149). We stopped now this far,
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LIDICKER 1959 (April) cont.) because of a flat tire They were abundant here & as was & shot 3 [illegible] callosaurus small mammal sign. We continued S to San Felipe where we bought gas & had our tire fixed. Then we had a swim in el golfo. The weather was very hot. We took the sand road leading S of San Felipe around El Manuel. 3 mi. N rd. S of San Felipe we turned off on a side rd. to the west which is just S of a small hill with an old mine shaft in it. We explored the mine shaft but found nothing. We then continued .2 mi. down the side road where we camped on the north side of a gravelly & bouldery hill. From the hill it appears that our camp is opposite the southern edge of Puerto Diggo. I shot 1 Urea & 1 Cramidylora. We set out 89 traps including 16 on the rocky slope behind camp; rest on sandy desert. Small mammal sign abundant. Desert very sandy with Torguier (blooming, but no leaves), Larrea, Acaia, paloverde, etc. Ran trapline after dinner. Weather at night was warm, with almost no moonlight, clear. April 2 Picked up traps; I caught very little else or least none however NIL caught more than I evening. Catch: (3 mi. SSW San Felipe) Dijodomys deserti - 4 D. merianii - 13
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(April 2 cont.) Perognathus penicillatus - 3 P. spinatus -1 (only animal caught in rocks) Perognathus sp. - 2 Utah Shot a Socalophorus around camp while shining & also an interesting slender lizard (#1778) which was on the shaggy back of the mesquite tree in our camp & matched it perfectly. It even "froze" with its head arched upward which made it look just like a strip of bark. We broke camp about 1530 & returned to San Felipe where we purchased some pan & then headed N after attempt to find the dirt road which goes W from San Felipe to Valle de San Felipe & Valle de la Trinidad, 7.6 mi. N San Felipe (by rd) we saw a Swainson's Hawk (observed perched as well as flying). We turned W. on the dirt road to El Valle de la Trinidad & went down this road 1.6 miles & made camp at sunset (31 mi. N, 7 mi. W San Felipe). I set 46 traps & NIL set 25. There was quite a bit of old deserti - sign, but nothing fresh. There was some fresh warren sign. The soil here was still very sandy but not as dry. Beaver came to look for water. The vegetation was sparser with fewer mesquite & palo verde & slightly more cactus the last camp. The day had been very hot (well over 100° F.). The night was also warm, mostly clear, with almost no moonlight.
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LIDICKER 1959 April 3 Catch: Diglossa baritula - w2l-4 NIC-9 / total 13 It was very hot & toward mid morning we accidentally flushed a Golden-eye from the small unit. I shook on the opposite side near from which it flew off toward the NW. We were shooting. Before breaking camp at 1230 we shot a jolly bird with brown spots. Sev. Umas were seen, but none were collected. We returned to highway & continued North. As we approached the Sierra Prieta we noticed that not only did the soil get more gravelly, but it also [illegible] that the gravel got looser (sand below). The Lavera became more numerous & were very green & blooming profusely. On the northern parts of the Sc. Prieta we noticed many gounds of a Cucurbitid & chivey lanterns growing in low places along roadside. At a point about 11.4 mi. S [illegible] beginning of Laguna Salada it appears that dips access to the east side of the Sierra Prieta ends. [illegible] On the north end of the Sc. Prieta is a large sand dune area which has small normal sign in & looks very interesting. We stopped & filled some bags with sand. Birds seen along Laguna Salada: Aher Egret - 2ev Snowy Egret - 25+ S. w. Teal - num., but not quite strong as on Mar.31.
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DICKER 1959 (April 3 cont.) Painted - 30+ Shoveller - 120+ Less Scaup - 25+ Reddy Duck - sw. Turkey Vult. - 1 Red H. Hawk - 1 Western Sandpiper - num. Dowitcher - 40+ Cost - num. Near El Mayo we saw a Black nk. Stilt & a pair of Cinnamon Teal. We crossed the border at Mexicali & drove north to Brawley where we stopped for dinner (No trouble crossing border). We continued N on US 99 to Kern Sps & then took Calif. 78 to Yaqini Well where we camped. Quite windy in evening. April 4 Morning overcast & moderately windy; pleasantly cool. We tried sand camp for a short while & saw: Plain Teela - very few. Plumbers Snedcatcher - 1 Mockingbird - many House Finches - com. Land & few quail There seems to be much more dips sign around Yaqini Well than the was last year at this time. We also saw a dips (mexicani) in the headlights last night as we were approaching the well. Continued on 78 to Julian. Picked up a Cistellus Beecheyi DOR 1.5 mi. by rd. SE of Wynaola. This was just below the fire belt in small oak &
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LIDICKEN 195-9 (April 4 cont.) Manginite zone. Saw a Sylviapis bichroni DOR 3.9 mi. E San Pasqual + 2 C. brecheyi 1.6 mi. E San Pasqual. Continued W on 78 to jct with US 101. Just E of this jct we stopped to look at some birds in a slough along the road, which had this clump of Scirpus. Birds seen: Shoveler - 400 + Ruddy Duck - 250 + Tree Swallow - 1 Coot - 70 Barn Swallow - 6 + Pied bt. Snake - 10 + Cliff Swallow - 120 + Eared Grebe - 40 + L.W. Marsh Wren - 15 + Green Heron - 1 Killdeer - 5 + Bufflehead - 6 + Song Sparrow - 5 + R. ft. Bull - 2+ R.W. Swallow - 10 + Corviant (unident.) - 4 Corn. Tern - 1 Dartchen - 1 2nd Yellowlegs - 1 Redwing - 2+ Mallard 11 (1 ft. copul.) marshland - + Stopped briefly at San Clemente StPk + continued N toward L.A. Turned N on Calif. 39 for alt. 101 + joined 101 which we took to US 99 which we followed to Bakersfield + jct. with US 466; west on 466 to Calif. 33 j north ~ 10 mi. before camping. April 5 Continued N on Calif 33 - breakfast + Colmigua.
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LIDICKER 1959 (April 5 cont.) 3.7 mi. S end of Kettleman Hills we stopped to look in a series of ponds along the west side of the road. Birds seen includes: Meadowlark - + Cinnamon Teal - 3 pair Cost - 2 Avocet - 15- W. Sandpiper - 60+ Least Sandpiper - 30+ Dovitcher - 1 Killdeer - 4 Wh. cr. Sparrow - abud. Gr. cr. Sparrow - 2+ Savannah Sp. - abud. Raven - 2+ Red-t. Hawk - 1 Just before the end of the hills we saw a C. breeding. Continued on 33 to get with Calif. 152. Just N of Firebaugh we saw: Blk. wk. Stilt - 5 Mallard - 3 Dovitcher - 6 Forster's Tern - 1 Meadowlark - + Brewer Blackbird - + Red-wing - + Killdeer - 1+ Just E of Dos Palos (at rd. x bird land) we saw just bel the Maggie of trip. Many seen afterwards. Calif. 152 to 10 mi beyond Los Banos & back on to Calif 33; to Tracy. 3.7 mi. E Los Banos: Snowy Egrets - sev. 3.3 mi. E Los Banos: Blk wk. Stilts - sev., & 1 Br. Snoveller. 2.0 mi. E Los Banos: Dovitcher - 4 (all +) some coming into spring plumage Blk wk. Stilt - 5+ Ruddy Duck - 12
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LIDICKER 1959 (April 5 cont.) Avocet - 15 Coot - 45 + Ameregret-1+ tillden-1 Merchardk -+ Redwing -+ Breemnachthid -+ Another bld.sh. stillt just S of Stanslano Co. line. Arrived in Berkeley about 1430. A total of 1795 miles traveled
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LIDICKER 1959 MVZ CHIHUAHUA - AGUASCALIENTES EXPEDITION June 10 - June 31 PERSONEL: A.S. LEOPOLD, W.S. RUSSELL, GEORGE BRYAN, DAVID TAYLOR, W.Z.L., & A.H. MILLER. June 10 Left Berkeley ~0530; av. Lindsay, Calif. to have lunch with Words & aunt's 1155. Arrived in Needles ~2215; checked into El Ranchos Motel & had swim before going to bed. Bryan arrived in his own car ~2400. June 11 Av. Needles 0700 after breakfast. So US65 to Vidal Jet. -> Eosp -> Wickenburg, Phoenix, Globe, to Lordsburg & finally Deming. Was very hot day. Checked into Plainsman Motel. June 12 Up at 0500, breakfast in Deming; continued E. Larra desert starts rather suddenly ~9 mi. W Las Cruces W of this point the were resquite thickets mainly soil also seem to get more gravel at this joint. S of Las Cruces saw a hawk with white rump, white wing lining with dark tips (possibly & marsh hawk). At Anthony saw 1 Marsh Hawk. Av. El Paso ~0830. After looking to consider 1 words & having lunch we went through customs. We managed to get "courtesy cards" instead of tourist
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LIDICKER 1959 cards after talking to immigration jefe + thus had not have to get your permits. Continued S toward Chihuahua City. The desert seems unnaturally green probably as a result of last summer's heavy rains. Arrived at Santa Rita Motel N W town ~ 1930 + bed swim. June 13 Spent most of day in Chihuahua stopping, changing money, getting haircut, etc.. Met J.S. Baldwinton (1005 Calle 14) + also went to Sefior Garcia's house + saw the 2 grizzly bears which he shot in the Sierra del Nido. Had late lunch back at motel after a swim. A.H. Miller arrived by plane ~ 7:00 so we went to dinner at Hotel Victoria in Chihuahua to celebrate. June 14 Left Santa Rita Motel 0605; had breakfast in drive a few miles to north. 18 mi. S of aduana station we stopped at a small presa which had 10 Baldpate on it. Ward + Starker each shot one (they both were thin + had very worn plumage). Also saw a black-tailed jack at this spot. At 2 mi. S of aduana sta., we noticed a W. Meadowlark + a Skrike. At the aduana station we turned W. on a dirt road toward Sierra Nido + Sierra Santa Clara. After just a few miles we began
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(June 14 cont.) To get into the foothills & 3 mi. from jet. we saw our first Citellus variegatus while we shot out of a oak. We continued through Canyon de Santa Clara & saw several C. variegatus until we got on to the W. side of the intro. 5 mi. from Alamos jet saw a Citellus speilosoma. Bird life was very abundant as soon as we got into the foothills. Among other things we saw Blue Grosbeaks, Black Phoebe, Curved billed Thrushes. After we crossed a ranch fence a few miles E of the village of Navarre we began to see golden sign. Navarre is 11 mi. from the alamos site & the crest of the mt. is 9 mi. beyond Navarre. The canyon goes through mixed pine-oak woodland & near gets into tall pine forests. The slope to the westward is much more gradual & the rd. descends into oak woodland & gradual. There are some large Mormonite settlements along the base of the intro. 9 mi. from the crest we saw another C. speilosoma. We headed on dirt rds. toward the N until we came to the ranch of Don Ramon Prieto which is along the lower reaches of Canon del Alamo. After chatting with foreman, wife & kids we went off across their ranch to the SE for 200 miles & made camp by a fresita under some large firgion trees (elev. 7300'). Set out 51 traps near camp including 3 woodrat sets. No sign of anything other than the woodrate. Arms set 11 golden traps (7 rats) with Taylor. & Art Luch
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DICKEN 1959 saw a number of night herds flying around (C. minor), + 2 large bats which flew by fast. ASL & Atton reported a number of bats seen low over the precincts. Ran trophies, lots of ants or crickets, but no mice. I was with Ward when he shot a gray squirrel out near 1/4 my trophies. June 15 Checked traps, but left lines out. Got 1 badly exten Paromys longi (saved only skull); shot 1 Chinchil + 1 Myotis californicus, no gophers. Skinned rock squirrel shot yesterday the 2 birds, a chipmunk collected by Miller + 1 of 2 Lepus guillelmi shot by Taylor. Ran gopher traps in afternoon. Had 1 gopher. Scenting road near camp in clump of wisteria on dead oak with 3 egg. Ward & I set + 2 traps for coyote near the precinct with a girl all's carcass for bait. Since I was feeling sick I rested for while before dinner. Retried the 51 traps + hit rock about 2030. added a little peanut butter to return on not traps + few others. June 16 Picked up traps except for 1 jar. I set traps around a wood rat house. Catch: Paromys longi - 3 (1 too fast - return to save) Neotoma alligula - 2 Picked up all gopher traps. Caught 2 more Thomomy. I skinned catch + 1 chipmunk while Miller shot. Myotis feeling nearly
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LIDICKER 1959 full grown r[illegible] in prison ovv camp. Also saw P[illegible] skeleton & wh. bk. Rave. Something had stolen our jack rabbit bait but not triked the traps. Coyote & Turkey sign constant around fresita. Set 3 rat traps - 2 grassy area where 3 musmim species hid near spring without catching anything. Set 43 was special on other grassy flat N of camp & also in sycamore thickets. Also made 3 new gopher sets. Saw 3 or turkey goin to fresita at dark. Reset "coyote set" with rotten oldspite into Ward, ~~ Wa staked the duck dam this time & set an additional trap near the bait. June 17 Ked gray fox - "coyote top set". Catch on trapline: Diplostomy ordin-1 Paropgeus longii =2 Taylor got a S[illegible] minimus & another ordin. & shot 2 Purple Martins, a Robin, & a Violet- green Swallow. Skinned catch. @ Ward & ATm both shot turkeys - Ward at 8 ~9 lb. a Miller a hen about 7lb. Stuber got a field or Worthers S[illegible]s & Miller got a Trogon elegans; Taylor a Barn Owl. Stuber went into the ranch n1030 to see Don Ramon & didn't get back until almost 1600. He brought back a Catebus spikeroom from Open flat W of camp. After dinner I reset 43 traps set last night & set 25 new -
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LIDICKER 1959 similar habitat, but al. higher up the slope & somewhat greener - with many burrows etc. Saw fresh deer sign in 2 places today on trails leading from fresita to hills to N. Checked coyote sets: rds. Went back shooting at buck with Bryan around fresita. He shot 1 Myotis + 2 collected a small hyrax. There were at least 2 signs of hawks coming in to water. Word reset "coyote set" & set 2 new sets with #2 steel for bobcats. June 18 Checked traps & picked up all but 25 newly set ones, 2 rod traps set for Necturus, 3 net traps set for Dippers + 2 net traps + a Mus. spec. set for Sigmodon. Catch: 1 D. ordii. Checked coyote trap - none. Saw Road Runner, Skinned ordii & Myotis shot by Bryan last night. Must 0800 set out for main canyon to N of camp. In canyon shot a Sylvilagus floridanus, 1 Eunomus gloriosis, a whip-poor-will & a Western Wood Pewee. Also saw Hepatic Tarager, Pygmy Nuthatch, Sclateria chelidura, Stellar's Jay, Arizona Jay, Acorn Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, W. Wood Pewee [illegible] Kingbird, myiarchus, Red-t. Hawk, T. Vulture, etc. Returned to camp about 1130t saw Sparrow Hawk over fresita. Had pleasant visit with Don Raman & the lunch. Skinned rest of catch
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DICKER 1959 until dinner time. Ward caught - T. Vulture in "coyote set" by precipice in PM. Went back to canyon after dinner to set traps. Set 31 along rock outcropping on S side of canyon--including 4 Schuyler sets for Newtown. Also found a small area with runways in grass just S ledge of canyon. Set 7 Mus. Spr. here. Reset 25+8 traps left out from last night. Had - large Scolopax (fogette) in one of the set traps. AHM shot a heavy bat over the precipice at dusk. June 19 Ward had coyote in steel set by precipice, nothing in other carnivore sets. Picked up traps on flat. Caught only 2 D. ordii. Checked + left out 31 traps on edge of canyon. took only 1 Newtown from them; set traps had been spring + 1 disaffended. Shot 1 Eutornis + another Squirrelus floridensis. Also got a Entilboraz fuliginosa + c 7 red-headed Grosbeak. Stalked lots of Robin but could not get within .38 range. Also heard Hegetic Tanner in canyon & Scott's Oriole around camp. Nothing in 9 traps set for Squirrelus in runways. AHM got par. of Evening Grosbeaks + found bear droppings again. Logwood found a lion track in the bottom of the canyon. Skinned catch in time to write notes before dinner. Reset traps on canyon wall + 7 in grassy runway. The set 4 more traps for Newtowns + 26 traps in bunch.
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LIDICKER 1959 8. small grn + white osh abt 1/3 way down canyon slope. Saw 1 small horn running through grass. Got back to frents at dusk; Ward & Starter had string 2 Ant nets along side of the frents. Q shot 1 F Eptesimus fuscus (1 shot). June 20 Checked traps + picked up traps in rocky edge near 5 Newton nets. Catch: Peromyscus boylii (?) - 2 Peromyscus mexicanus - 4 Neithothomp negalotis - 1 (in trap new when I had seen small horn run late before) Newton mexicana - 2 Shot 1 Turdus migratorius (F with broad peak). Saw a cotton tail among yuccas on top of ridge, but wouldn't able to get a shot at it. On canyon watched pair of Empidonax fuliginosus + pair of Brown-headed Cowbirds; 3 large ant trophies of 26 traps in Chamathus thicket in bottom of canyon (did not bait traps). Also set 3 more Newton traps along with out cropping on latter edge of canyon. Skinned catch + Eptesimus from last night. Ward & Starter found fresh lion signs in the canyon & made 4 steel sets for them. Nothing was caught in other nets. Ward shot a Trogon caligera + Starter got amazed - trogon, RM shot at, but didn't get another turkey, he got Canyon Wm + saw Wh. H.'s wife. Both Stark & Ward saw Badger signs. After dinner went back to
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LIDICKER 1959 4 trips to canyon to bait traps. Shot a Sylviolaegus floridanus (WZ #1845) in bottom of canyon. Heard whip-poor-will & saw & heard Pos-sums. Had trap snap, but didn't catch anything. Shot a large bat which was flying high down the canyon (first Eptesicus), but it circled down into some trees & I lost it. Saw several more. ABA shot an Eptesicus in canyon at about same time. He also got a Flammulated Scrub Owl & a Corn. Scrub Owl. June 21 Nothing is still sets, but Ward & Studer had a bobcat apparently killed the last (carding) from their first lion set! Caught 1 Baird's in small brush pile in bunch grass along slope & 3 Paroquema longi (?) in Carothus thicket in bottom of canyon. Saw a Sylviolaegus floridanus & sav. chipmunks & a Citellus variegatus. Also saw BLK. Lined Swallow, Solitary Vares, Sclater's Chickadee, Hepatic Towner, etc. After getting back to camp skinned Kaithen & then about 09:15 Dave, George, & I took truck & went for water at Sunday's well. Saw 4 Citellus spilonoma but couldn't get any. Shot 8 Horned Laks (I took 3) & saw many more. After lunch skinned cat. After dinner relaid 26 traps in Carothus thicket - canyon bottom, set 4 Snyder - traps near canyon rim & 5 Newtown sets. Set 30 Mus. Spee. in bunch grass along canyon wall, I saw Newtown set along rock outcropping & 5 Newtown sets
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LICKER 1959 in yucca thickets on crest just S of canyon. While in canyon ~ AM, saw car, lion tracks along trail looking W. Also smelled skunk along canyon wall. On trail back to camp saw fresh deer tracks & what was probably skunk tracks. June 22 Caught only 3 Newtons in traps (at 1850 from yucca clumps, & other 2 from orch outcropping, along canyon). Shot at a pair of Mead's Quail & startled them just any up side of canyon & the shot 1. She had 2 Scarletlets & car. ants + 1 piece of meat in her crop. She had recently layed an egg & had several large follicles. Neither bird made any calls. Also got a good look at a Wh-crested Hummingbird, but won't call to collect it. Caught a Benrich's War in one of the house traps, in the Ceacothrus. Picked up traps in Ceacothrus thickets in bottom of canyon & laid out new line of 28 along bottom of canyon in brush piles, over old logs, etc. Set 2 new Newton sets in yucca clumps (left at 4 o'd ones) + left out 2 Newton sets on canyon wall. Skinned quail, Benrich's War + stored Carl from yesterday & 3 wood rats. APM got a pair of Laguna jacobini & skinned one of them. After dinner tested new line of traps in bottom of canyon + moved last trap (a net trap) which had been spring tuned by a C. variegatus up into brush grass line which was then 31. Refurbished Newton traps
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LIDICKER 1959 After picking traps in AM, I made 2 steel sets (#1) for skunks along the canyon wall using bird carcass + 1/2 a rabbit carcass for bait. Also set one new set trap for Neotoma - rocks on way back to comfort bunk saw car, bats, a javy-will, & a pair of white-tailed jack around Preista. Finished setting jack rabbit after dark. June 23 Checked traps; caught 2 Neotoma albivola from nyssca thicket sets - left out 4 constructed sets where 1 was one. Caught nothing in bottom of canyon & only 1 Eutamias from bunch grass line which I then picked up. Nothing in skunk sets or other Neotoma traps; also nothing in 4 Squirrels-traps in grass. Set 2 gopher traps near nyssca's end of canyon. Flushed 2 & Meari's Quail together - encircled. They gave "mewy" call as they flew away. This is the area where Ward had shot car. & & + there may be 2 "wildcat" ??. Skinned catch, strung up 2 drops of skulls to dry, & dug new garbage pit (with George). Had 3 brief showers around noon. After lunch, I went with Leopold & Ward to jack in a fresh white-tail which Ward shot in the canyon near the cabin. After returning I skinned a Dryocopus for Dave & caught up on note writing. Set steel trap (#1) for C. variegatus at end of new line in bottom of canyon in AM. Set out 10 mus, 5 pec. along like at Preista in bread for
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LIDICKER 1959 Squidron, Rattlers, etc. Saw one or 2 finely marked runner-up which was probably made by Squidron. After dinner set new line of traps (32 incl. 3 sets for Weston) along canyon wall - rocky outcrops. Had 1 Squidron minimus in trap 4 group of 4 - guess set for since (June 20th) but was a trap which had been empty only every for 3 days in a row, last time in morning - also Squidron has still alive although caught by shell - so has recently caught. This all suggests a late afternoon activity period. Relisted 27 traps along canyon bottom. Steel trap at end of this line had been spring & dragged & had small track of C. variegatus for in it. I reset it also. Also set 4 Mm. Pfen. along cliffs & reset 2 old Weston sets. Did not visit Newton's set next to stunk set. Saw pair of Mason Quail - flushed from open grazing area. Checked traps now positive after dark; saw lots of crickets and nothing else. June 24 Caught 1 Brownpea (boyii?) along canyon rim nothing in bottom, no wood rats from agave thickets or no shrubs. Picked up traps from canyon bottom. Picked up all wool rat traps in agave but 1 set was yesterday & made 5 new sets (total of 6 sets); also picked up rat trap near stunk set. Shot 1 Canyon Wren. Was got a holcat in one of his burin sets & a nuttier in another. The holcat had part of a C. variegatus & a Newton's in its stomachs. Skinned catch.
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LIDICKER 1959 13 Miller shot a small rattlesnake (AHM# 11098) which was just way down a mouse hole. On turning a rock to get the snake he found a Paururus staggering around which was apparently struck by the snake (behind the shoulder) while was waiting for it to die. I skinned the mouse (WZ# 1861). After lunch packed some specimens with AHM, & we didn't have any new drying-room. Reloated traps by precipice & set 2 more (total 12), Shot & Brown Toucan & skinned him. Set 6 gopher traps (4 sets) below precipice. After dinner went with Staker & Dave six miles W to where main canyon a small canyon with precipice by which we are camped meat & then walked about 1/2 mi up main canyon to where Staker had seen fresh Siguran sign. We set 49 traps in this area. That evening we strong boat set along side 9 precipices & finally caught 1 Myotis (long ears) & 1 Eptesicus fuscus. I did not go back to canyon to collect traps. June 25 Went to Sigurdson traps with Dave. Caught 2 Sigurdson minimus. Dave took # into mountains & I watched rife again for a shot while & shot, & Scott Orde, also saw a B. Saw 3 horned-tailed hummer & 2 or silent & hummer with down curved bill & purple throat, no ear patch, green fed, al. middle br. flanks. Set 2 gopher sets along canyon bottom. Staker then showed up & we drove back to camp. Saw sev. Sparrow / Hawke in fleet. When we returned to camp & took # for Lucifer Hummer (see note page 28)
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LIDICKER 1959 14 (June 25 cont.) the canyon to check my traps there. Had a #8 Citellus variegatus in a #1 steel which I had set for him yesterday AM. Caught 1 Psammomys (longtail) along rock wall near presente. Skinned catch (gave credit to ASL) + Eptesicus from last night. Went with George downt 1530 to get water at El Sanchez' hacienda. We saw few C. agiliscons but wasn't able to get any also saw alot of N. Raxm around a dead cow, + a Snake. Rotated Signatar traps + checked other sets at
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J DICKER 1959 June 26 a gray fox in one of his lion sets. I saw a pair of Mavis Quail on ridge while returning to camp at dusk. Took truck & picked up Sigman traps + gopher traps at "conference". Catch: nada. Returned to camp & walked to canyon. Both skunks set had been set OK but caught nothing. One had been dragged the full length of the chain. Caught 2 Peromyscus along rock out cropping in canyon (1872 + 1873), 1873 was caught in a wood rat set. Had 3 more Peromyscus in traps on ridge + 1 in one of wood rats sets near to camp. Picked up all traps. Nothing in traps nor prairie dogs & nothing in gopher traps below prairie dogs. Ward had collected & wrapped myfantis - steel trap set for bobcat near camp. Skinned catch & lots from last night. At dusk went down to prairies to shoot bobs but couldn't get any. 3+ rags seen. June 27 Packed up camp & left at about 0930. Ward caught a bobcat in a #3 trap by prairie dog had dragged trap & large rock try completely through the yard & was c muddy, exhausted mess when we found it. Got gas in nearby town - Colonia Santa Clara & headed back thru Santa Clara Canyon toward Chilietas. At crest of canyon saw two white-tailed deer. Shortly after this we began seeing C. variegatus + chipmunks. Stopped i village of La Varas to tell commissario
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DICKER 1959 16. what we were doing & then continued to writing about 1/2 mi. of the canyon mouth & set up camp against the E cliffs where we found a small water hole. Set out 66 traps in Agave plus thickets + willow thickets with some open area. Camp is about 7.8 mi. by road E of La Veta (5 mi. N Cuenca Compa, 5600 ft., Chihuahua, Mexico). At dusk saw quite a few Pipistrellus hesperis. I shot 1, Starker shot 1, & Dave got 1. Hit rock about 2 1/2. June 28 Run traps. Had my 1 Paromopus immaculatus Blonder, although many traps were empty. Saw coyote track & small tracks of what was probably Bassariscus which had dug into a gopher mound - the gopher re-plugging the hole. Skinned maniculate + Pipistrellus & the rest 12 gopher sets (20 traps). After got a pair of Lucifer Hummingbird, a Orchard Oriole & a S Hawked Oriole. After seeing the S Lucifer I feel sure that the hummer I saw on June 25 at the Syracosam-trapping area was also a Lucifer. After skinning catch of pipistrelle from last night & skinned a curve billed thrasher which Starker shot & the ran my gopher traps. Had 2 gophers, skinned these. Set out 35 traps along rock canyon wall near camp & a few in grassy area down the rim. Had a light rain through much of late afternoon. Relaid the lines of 66 traps = Agave plus etc. & set four more net traps for lipo. At dusk shot 1 Pipistrelle
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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
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LIDICKER 1959 Didn't look too good, leaving 2 out. Prepared food + shrimped catfish. After lunch Starker took Miller into Chihaulan so he can catch a flake tomorrow for Berkeley. George went with them. I set out 7 new gopher sets + 3 small steel for C.variegatus. Set out 46 trips on gravel slope above camp with glass & small oaks. Checked gopher traps + steels. Hit 1 gopher + 1 C.variegatus. Relined 35 traps on levee + 3 rat traps on flat. Reset 3 rat traps in new locations for dipsos, one left struck during night. Caught a small UTE in a rock along canyon wall while setting traps. Saw 25 colugans in camp during afternoon. Ward got 1 with his slingshot & the other got away. Set 1 new gopher set at luck. July 1 CATCH: 1 Prosynethus (Electrohips) along levee + 1 otter on grass-oak flat which was hot as briskly into water + with a broken tail - so described. Picked up all remaining sets of my original gopher sets & checked new sets; led 3 more gophers leaving 4 sets out. Also caught an old & Onychomys in 1 gopher set. It was caught by the skin on the ventral side of the rock & was alive. Shot a ? Hopistic Tanager, shrimped animals + led about 1 1/2" from in afternoon. Heard a Bufo call shortly thereafter (~1630). Ward had set out a trap line
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LIDICKER 1959 saw the north of the canyon & got 1 Barings, 1 Reuthro, 1 Signatum, 1 Perognathus flavus, & 2 D. ordii. Had more heavy rain in early evening. Caught 3 Burps after dark, one in tent, & Ward caught a Scaphiopus. Set out 37 traps in greeny or brushy area down 1/2 mi down canyon. This included 4 rat traps set for Signatum in fresh-looking runs. Relented 46 traps in greeny oak choke canop, & relented 5 rat traps around camp for lifers. Also got a large T Citellus norvegicus in steel trap set along draw. Was small amt. of rain during night. July 2 Had only 1 Signatum remaining - traps down canyon, nothing - traps in oak-grass. Ranzofer sets & had no goofers; picked up 2 of the 4 sets & make a new set. Apparently the rain had stimulated the goofers around camp & nearer to the canyons to work on their damours so there was clot of fresh goofier brands around camp. Ward made 8 sets & caught 7 goofies in short order. He also got 3 Signatum in his traps down the canyon. I caught a goofie - my new set. When we were eating breakfast a Yellowthroat was singing near camp & Ward finally shot it. Caught a Thamnophilus along the edge of the canyon while eating breakfast. Skinned animals. About 1430 Student & Lange arrived back in camp from their 2 day jaunt into Lidicker City. Set another steel trap along the levee at the north
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LIDICKER 1959 20. July 2, recognized lunnus. Picked up 46 traps i grass and set them 37 from canyon. After dinner Stokes, Ward, Dene & myself drove about 1 1/2 mi. down the canyon to beyond it with a scat trap. I set 50 in Opuntia thickets, open areas, & brushy area. After dark caught 3 Bufo around camp & near many more. Caught 2 individuals I wished for Arbacia Elephantasterias. They were calling mainly from cliffs above our water hole but a few had moved down to grade. I got 1 by sitting close to where I was calling & holding a Bufo in my hand which was calling away & apparently stimulated the other to call. The second one called from the edge of the small pond at the base of the cliff. Others got 3 more. Ward shot a Otus trichopsis after dark. July 3 Ran trap lines. Set 50 traps below canyon mouth & had Diplobatrachus verrucani - 1 Pseudacris maculata - 3 (1 discarded) Ranitomeya (pulchra? ) - 1 ap. - 1 Nestorina lepida - 1 (in Mrs. Spec.) Nothing - line below camp (39 traps) & nothing in steel or 2 running goths sets which were picked up. Also nothing in 5 scat traps set around camp - 3 of these picked up. Ward got Pseudacris hypoides - 1 in
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each of his lines & also 2 species of Peithos down below, & also 1 individual of another Paragrythus (Clastodipus) I skinned my catch & a D. ordin cought by Lefkoff, several Paragrythus & lipos of Wards & 1 Sigridon & 1 P. maniculatus for old-tin Stoker threw away 2 P. flavius & Ward threw away about 4 P. maniculatus & a yy. Sigridon. Skinned most of day. After dinner Ward, Dave & I went about 3 mi. toward the aduan to set traps. This is within a mile + 1/2 of the aduan. We estimated the elevation at 5350 ft. I set 49 traps spacing them quite wide apart. Heard several Meadowlarks & a Night Hawk. Saw sev. Pizistrrelles at dusk. Heard sev. of the Electorodactylus? in good by camp & 3 were caught. Checked Wads' gopher set new camps (fig 2) & had a gopher in it. No rain during night. July 4 Picked up traps near aduan (5350 ft.). I caught only 1 Paragrythus maniculatus--few & desecated 1 Paragrythus flavius - skinned as described 1 yy. Sigridon minimus. Many traps are spary. Ward got away other things: Paragrythus higridus, sev. D. bernanti, a Nestorine, 1 D. spectabilis, sev. yy. Onychomys & 1 cd, & sev. Peromys maniculatus & Sev several Sigridon. Dave also had 2 D. bernanti, 2 Sigridon, sev. P. maniculatus
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(Aug 4 cont.) + a Rattlesnake (large species) which we both ate. + no was discarded. We saw our Scaled Quail on way down + Ward shot 1. On way back we closed a brush of about 10 yd. quail (2 w3 days old) + caught one. I shot a Prairie Wither along trough. A number of birds were singing + had flight songs. The song like a started ending. I caught nothing in 2 net traps around camp - picked them up. Had a 5 Citellus nevadensis in steel trap set at morning along levee. Squirrel catch. Dan shot a 8 red-eyed Cowbird in Camp + Stokes saw a Yellow-billed Cuckoo go trough Camp in early morning. We had a moderate heavy rain in the afternoon. Yesterday we talked to a man who works for the fellow who owns the land we were camped on. He told us there were lots of leaves in the mountains + that they need 50 cows a year to wolves. He also said there were porcupine in the higher parts of the mountains. This agrees with the statement of our neighbor who reported that his dog had found a foragevine recently up one of the nearby canyons. Song of Ainsworth mentioned above agrees perfectly with Peters's description of the song of A. cassini. Set our 2 softer set new camp. Caught a hard Turtle (Kinosternon) in small pond at base of cliffs behind camp. After dinner Dave + I drove down to about 1 mi. of the advance site, on the main rd, to set traps. We set 5 Schuyler traps
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spectabilis boards along the road. Then I set 44 traps - about spacing traps well to Dave set 46. We saw a Blk. H. Jack roll it while setting traps. Wal had seen another cat in morning while we were picking my traps. On way back to camp, Dave & I saw a small animal run across the road which we thought might have been a Baronisus. July 5 checked traps: We had 2 Neotoma (lepida?) + 1 Onychomys in the 5 Schyzans. We also found a D. spectabilis DOB which was in good condition. In my traps I had 2 P. maniculatus, 1 Onychomys, 1 D. ordii, + 1 Parryothus flavus. Dave had 1 Reithrodontomy (large sp.), 1 Parryothus hispidus, 1 P. maniculatus, 1 Onychomys, 1 Squirrel + a Neotoma (lepida.) caught in a spectabilis board. This makes a total of 4 of the Neotoma which we took from spectabilis boards with no sign of a "wood- rat-nest". Shot another Aerothile along trap line + a pair Kernal lark. On way back to camp we stopped to look for tracks at the spot where we had seen the Baronius-like animal last night. Could find nothing suggestive. My gopher set was plugged again (also last night). Skinned animal. Rechecked gopher set in late afternoon + finally had goph. Also shot a Eutanaia
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LIDICKER 1959 dorsalis from cliff behind camp. This I seem to have more rusty color along flanks + crown base I feel than those from Canyon del Alamo. Skinned chipmunk & gopher. After dinner set 4/4 traps about 1 mi below camp in fairly open grass & gravelly place (25) + three in thicker grass & brush. Saw two jiggledrills at dusk & also a number of large bats which made continual loud chipping calls. Stuber says he saw a Sylvilagus floridanus high up in canyon to S. of us which headed toward Carrs Campara. July 6 Picked up trap-line. Catch: Sigmatom minimus -2, Parozethus florus-2, Parozethus hispidus-2, Pamopos maniculatus -1, Diprotomps ordii -2 & Baiomyops taylori -1. The Baiomyops was along a slight ridge which had some rocks + low shrubs plus grass. Skinned catch plus 1 P. florus caught by Dave. Word canpt a Citellois norvegicus in one of his steel traps + 2 also skinned that. George discovered a live Teloride which had gotten tangled in the last net while we left string over the small ford at the base of the cliff behind camp. Stuber & Dave went into Chinle for flour + groceries. We are having trouble with canyon latters + dorrestids in the specimens. After dinner I set 4/5 traps along the cliff below camp. It was quite moist + sticky along this slope + their
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LIDICKER 1959 was shot ? Rhoeo de, Virtue, & wattle as well as oak trees. I also set 1 trap at a bighole near the stream. Did some last-shooting along the base of the cliffs. I saw some Myotis-singed bats as well as Pipistrellus but only succeeded in wounding one of them. Aug 2 Caught my 5 Paronygenus (longii?) in my trap-line. Skinned these. After lunch walked over mile up canyon to 5 & camps (toward Carrs Condemne) to check new small caves for bats. The caves were both small & had no bats nor any bat sign. Was considerable wood rat sign, however (N. mexicana?). The walk up the canyon is through continuous scrub. Saw 2 great cat dars (shot 1), Blk headed Grosbeak-dar, Bush-tit, Ladder-lt. Woodpecker, W. Paver, mex Jays, Curve-bll Thrasher & Brown Thrasher. Also saw a Saybreilgus and ½ mi up from mouth of canyon which looked like S. floridanus. This is about the area where Starker saw a collared which he thought was floridanus. At mouth of canyon I saw & shot a Dendroica nigrescens. Were also saw Mockingbird & Curve-bll Thrasher around the same area. Skinned 2 birds before dinner. After dinner I set 50 traps on rocky slope NE of camp for Paronygenus. There was also a small unit of Newtons signs under some large boulders. Caught a Thamophila
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IDILKEN 1959 away to set traps. Tried to shoot bats at dusk but didn't get any. Actually saw very few -- 20 pipistrelles. July 8 Cetel: Peromyscus minimatus - 1 jwr (discovered) Peromyscus cremicus - 1 Peromyscus sp. (first evening) - 1 Peregrinus - 8 + 1 trail (1 discovered) Reithrodontomy - 1 Started cetel. Kelly, Haskell, Ned Johnson & Bill Hamilton arrived in camp about 1330. After unpacking their gear I made 3 further sets. After dinner I set out 48 traps across the canyon (N side) away rocks in a side canyon or else on a small rocky ridge. There was a small ant. I Naotoma sign but nothing fresh. Saw a large batlike which was brown [tan] with black rings around it, & it got slightly jake considerably. It crawled away some webs before I could shoot it. Afterward I helped Dave set 24 traps directly E of camp near the S cliffs. I shot a small batlike (less than 1/3 the size of one described above) which looked like the one seen above. Saw way few bats in evening; didn't ever get a shot at 1. Saw 2 large + straight flyers & 1 Myotis - sign 1 one. Ned shot an Antrozous pellucens which must be what the large + straight flying
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LIBICKER 1959 Species is. Heard that Harold Owl & animal Pow - wills. Was very hot night with 2 showers. July 9 Catch: Penegroths sp. - 3 + 1 fin. Skinned them & checked gopher traps. Had 1 gopher & another had plugged the tunnel - reset traps. Skinned gopher & Wet's Antrogonus. Heavy rain with winds after lunch. Stader & Colby took 4 boxes specimens to Chihuahua City to store with Baldwin (but asked my leaving them at The Santa Rita Motel). Preserved rattlesnake from last night & turtle caught July 4. Sorted equipment & food into Valco bags for glittery party. Colby shot a Sphydrys during Am & I skinned him. Packed up load running 2 gopher sets & had another gopher. Denise was delayed until closet 2100 as Colly & Stader didnt show up until the. Tried to shoot rats at dusk, but saw very few & didn't get any. Nick shot a jukitelle. Skinned last gopher after dark. Didn't get to bed until ~ #15. July 10 Continued sorting & packing gear set after breakfast. Finally broke camp closet 0915. Nick Dave & I headed S for Aguaracaliente. The others headed for Canyon Masterto in the NW just of the Suen del Nido. We picked up a little more deer on the way to Chihuahua. In Chihuahua we did some shopping & 27
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LIDICKER 1957 28 stuffed at the Baldwins for mail. We continued S about 12/5 & had dinner in Hidalgo del Parral. 23 mi. by rd. N of La Resolana, Dgo., we saw a dead coyote along the road & about 5 or 6 hung on a fence nearby. 5 mi further we saw a Skylarige + 1/6 mi N of La Resolana (43 mi N La Zarca) we saw a White-winged Dove. 6 mi further we saw a pair of Seated Quail. On this stretch (41 mi W of La Zarca to La Zarca) we saw 7 Alk tailed jack rabbits, 4 chthonial Skylariges & saw hight hawks - which looked like the large species. We found another dead skel some right near the La Zarca jet. but didn't examine it since it was badly damaged. We got to Durango, Dgo., about 0045 & checked into a motel (Mexico Courts). July 11 We didn't wake up until about 1000. After breakfast & writing letters we continued S. 22 mi. N (by rd) of Nombre de Dios we saw a Yellow backed blackbird. 7 mi. further a rocer DOR which we picked up & preserved. 14 mi. N of Nombre de Dios there was a Citellus spilosoma DOR. 29 mi. N of the Tropic of Cancer (by rd). we saw another Wh-winged Dove (in Zacatecas). We stopped - Fresnillo & had the truck greased with oil changed. Then we bought a few things in the mercado & had
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LIDICKEN 1959 29 (Jug 11 cont.) a bird list as soon as we cross the border: miles S of border Bust-H. Swallow 1 Raven 1 Bar Swallow 1 Morning Dove -4 1 Los Alamos is where the RR crosses the highway a little over 1 mi. S of the border. Raven 3 town of Cozito 4 Shrike 4.8 Brown Towhee 7.5 Shrike 13 Bust-H. Swallow 13 We turned off just S of Rincon de Romo on the road to Tepozate. Around jet were Cliff Swallows, Eng Sparrow, + 1 8' Vermillion Flycatcher. miles E of jet: Tory's Phone 2 Bst.H. Swallow 3 Bar Swallow 4.2 (in a small foldle) sev. shrikes 6-9 Bst.H. Swallow 9 town of Tepozate 10.2 Lica Dove 10.2 Blk tailed jack 11 made camp about 2 mi. E of Tepozate & set
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44 traps at dusk (including 1 Newton set along arroyo wall). Saw no lizards. Ned & Dave head Purr-wills. Had snack & then caught up on notes. Traps set in open gravelly slopes with Chollas, creosote bush, Acacia, etc. Started staying about 2300. Ned on his trap line after dusk & led 3 Parompeus. 8/12 Catch: Parompeus eremius - 2 (1 discarded) P. mainulatus - 1 Newton - 1 (along rock wall of arroyo) Paragrythus velosini - 4 Oryzomyx torridus - 1 After a quick breakfast, Dave & I explored up the rock to the E farther for a near complete. We then moved camp to ~ 3 mi. E of Topozada; elevation estimated at 7200 ft. This camp is on the north side of the main peak of this range of hills, almost directly N of San Pedro de Colores. There is another major peak to the N of us which is probably Cerro Altamira. We are on the W side of the saddle between these 2 peaks. There are lots of old mine shafts along the base of the peak to the south. I saw. Set up camp & then equipped catch. Ned & shot a jav. Verdin at lower camp. Birds seen around new camp include Raven, Ca fin Wren, Curve billed Thrasher & Say's Phoebe.
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LIDICKEN 1959 Journal (July 12 cont.) Set out 47 traps on open gravel slopes & 2 catclaw thickets before dinner. Met a man who was looking for lions & he confirmed that the peak to the N of us is Cerro Altamira, & he said the peak just S of us is called Cerro San Juan. This is the one on which San Pedro de Colores is parched. Set out 20 more traps along small canyon near camp in brushy areas. Saw a Lepus californicus. Next also saw a Lepus & a Sylvilagus. Watched for rats at the entrance to sewer mine shafts near small canyon near camp. While setting 20 traps alone I looked down a vertical shaft & saw a small bat circling in it. At dusk saw rats come out of one mine & circled briefly in the depression between 2 shafts which had several mesquite growing in them. I shot 1 mystax from this group. I didn't see any bats which looked different from this species. It was too windy & raining for bats to do much flying about. There was a hard rain shower in mid afternoon & light showers intermittent into the evening. Dan smelled a snake while checking some of his traps after dark. There was apparently no heavy rains during night, but it was quite windy. Dane & I strung a small bat net over the entrance mine shafts in which I had seen a bat flying after dark. Skinned the mystax white legs skinned some lizards. July 13 Catch: (Picked up all traps)
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LIDICKER 1954 journal (July 13 cont.) Paragnathus -6 (I did not have any strong signs on rungs, but too rotten + and -fer to save so kept in shell only; another was brown + smell the reason) Oryctes torridus -2 (1 pair discarded) Peromyscus maniculatus -1 (discarded) Reithrodontomys -2 Dipodomys merriami -1 (had seen since 7 arespite off in our patch) Peromyscus evanescens -2 Peromyscus (triglinii)? -1 Peromyscus difficilis? -2 Peromyscus melanogryphus -6 (1 pair discarded) Neotoma -1 (caught in a frisky few clumps which had no sign of a house but saw places with looked like large mormoops) Dave smelled a skunk again when he ran his trapline while he left out. Skinner cat. This took until about 1900. Ned saw a Sylvorlepus again in evening. Got very windy about 1900. Set out 48 traps - maily for Paragnathus on open gravelly slopes. Made 3 Neotoma sets - 1 big house filed in small abortive mine shaft, + 2 others in clumps of shrubs with no visible houses. No gopher sign seen in this area at all. Ned set his traps about 1 mi NW of camp & found some small foots in a canyon. Around the foots were tracks which he took to be goat + skunk. Watched for bats - smell canyon E
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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
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L DICKER 1959 Trees there is a very local scrubby vegetation. I set 20 traps in the brush along the river edge (the river is dry except for occasional pools) + 15 traps in thick brush back from the River bed. While we were setting up camps (before dusk) we noticed quite a few large Sigurdson moving around through the brush. I set 3 net traps + a Schleyer for them, & Dave & Ned also set a number of traps for them. At dusk there was a brief flight of about half a doz Myotis velifer & Dave shot 1. After dark other bats were heard. Ned shot a screech owl. Dave set 3 steel sets for skunk, I by a burrow (he also smelled a skunk & found several skunk droppings). Saw Black cr. right before fly out in evening. Were many loud tailed Grackles around camp & once Dave. There was also a pair of Ravens which acted as if they were roosting in one of the trees near camp. Heard heavy rain during night. Heard Barn Owl after dark. July 15 Catch: Batscamp - 1, Peromyscus maniculatus - 2, + Mus musculus - about 5. Dave got 1 sp Sigurdson hispidus & a Rithrodontomys. The large Sigurdson seem to be trap wary or uninterested in the bait (cornmeal + peanut butter) so they were often heard around the traps, but didn't go into them. Saw 2 more night heron which sounded like Black-crowns. Skunk animals a lake camp about noon. Hooked for Azoresclects. No gopher signs at all seen at this camp. Arrived at Azurescle
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DICKEN 1959 Journal (July 15 cont.) About 1300 went to Lomas, got gas, & bought supplies & had lunch at the Hotel Paris (N side of Plaza central). Left town & headed back N about 1630. Ran most of way into town. About 20 mi. N of town (Pabellon) we turned W on gravel road toward Presa Calles. The valley flow is mostly miles. About 3 mi from turnoff the road begins to climb. The vegetation here is mostly beautiful & exquisite. A mile farther than turnoff to S to Presa Jocoyque, & 2 miles beyond this another turns to N to Presa Pabellon. This is now the top of the first ridge. 6 mi from the turnoff The road comes to a town on the shore of Presa Calles. This is apparently Colonia Presidente Calles. This is where the gravel road ends & the dirt trail begins. About 1 mi N of town (by rd) I shot a lizard (#2052). The road skirts the N side of the Presa & then heads W. 2 miles N of town (by rd) we saw Horned Larks, & 4 mi. beyond Curve killed Thrasher & 2 Brown Towtees. 6 mi. beyond the turn we came to a river with a small settlement along it. Here we saw a large Squirrel under a culvert. I shot at him at a distance & missed & he ran into a hole, but I ran up to him & got a good look before he disappeared. He seemed quite yellowish. We also saw a pale looking cottontail here & a Curve killed Thrasher. Near the R. we saw a Black Phoebe, & Ned saw fish in the river. Just before the River we shot a young cottontail which looked the same as the one seen earlier by the culvert (N.K.J#1258 - 5 mi.
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal (July 15 cont.) W/W Colonia Prezente Calle). This town is W of Presa Cals & quite a bit higher. The road goes southea S out of town & the turn back W. About 1 mi. beyond the R, we saw about 10 Lake S parrots & just a little further we came to a larger settlement where the road makes a set, & turn to the south (left). About 1 mi. down the road we saw an Ardea Brev + 1 1/2 mi. from this town another Sylviolygus. 3 mi. from town we heard a W. Preckwhats. About 4 mi. above this town (by rd) - 11 mi. from Col. Pres Celles + 17 mi. from turning from highway - we stopped to camp. This is an area of rolling hills covered with grass with a few scattered oaks. This is at the base of the second major ridge which lies directly to the W. There is a fairly large canyon to the N with boundary walls, etc. In some places there is patches of fairly thick growth of some willow-like shrubs. We saw a number of large Sceloporus (torquatus group) along stone walls. I set 10 traps along a stone wall [this was a small unit of Neotoma signi], 30 traps in open grassland, + 19 traps in scrubby & somewhat rocky area with patches of bearbush, etc. Dave set the canyon walls + also the stone wall. Ned set - the willow-like vegetation & head as well as further down the canyon. We saw a few rats at dusk + after dark, but couldn't get any. Heard a number of frogs calling which sounded like some leptodactylid. They were calling from the canyon walls + bottom. Ned caught 4 & Dave got 1 in morning,
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L/DICKER 1959 Journal Heavy rain during night. Hard Pass - wild. July 16 Catch: Peromyscus (boylii ?) - 5 + Baiomys - 1. While setting traps in evening I shot a jg cotton-tail + Dave got an adult q. We skimmed catch, had lunch & left about 1400. Saw sw. Pumas and corp. Nothing was caught in the grassland. The Peromyscus were in the stone wall, in the brushy areas and in cotton-tail clumps. The Baiomys was along the stone wall also, but there was a lonely border. One rat trap set in the stone wall was spring & dragged about 3 ft. We chatted with a good herder who lives nearby + he said there we jock rabbit with white tails in the area. He also said he knew of only 1 kind of stink animal. In the mountains, he said there were coyote, leones, gatos corral, monos, jaguateras, venados, lobos but no ozoa. He also had never heard of a chichinoco. Shortly beyond camp we began to climb a very steep slope which is the 2nd region ridge (You can see Pizze called off to the E from this camp). Mangantes begin at the base of this ridge. The crest is about 2 miles beyond our camp. The road then enters a meadow with oak, mangantes, etc.. Here we saw Bluebirds (looked like eastern) + dark sparrows. Two miles from the crest the road comes to a small town - La Congoja which has a TV-like antenna towering over it. Just E of town we saw
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LIDICKEN 1959 (July 16 cont.) fork gorla honds. These were along the edge of a cultivated field + wec the first gorla hond wid seen in the state this trip. Just as I town we saw one Lak Sparrow + a Scott Jay (back seen well). 2 miles beyond Le Congoja we shot a Mex. Jay. This an are of rolling hills covered with oak-marganite woodland + eventually alot of Junipers. About 3 miles beyon the village we recorded Mex. James, Broad tailed Hummer, Rava, + Robin. In another mile the road cuts N + S little E + winds down into a canyon which has a house + a miller at the bottom. Here we saw some Lesser Goldpids + Ned saw a Catellus variegatus (the last was 5 miles beyond Le Congoja). The climbs took out of this canyon + continues westward. A few miles further we began to see a few pines, + 9 miles beyond Le Congoja we came to a fork in the road. About here we heard a Broad-tailed Hummer. The left fork leads westwardly across a large low meadow + up the side of a ridge. The right goes northward to a fancy house on the side of a canyon which seems to flow to the west. According to sev. fellows working around the house it belongs to some gobierno. They said we were between Cerro del Foguay + Cerro La Ardilla but closer to the former. We continued about another mile & half when the road jets out to a trail which goes up to the edge of a large baranca - which seems to run N + S. We looked around for a suitable camp site.
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal (July 16 cont.) Doc + Ned saw a S? Morn's Quail + Ned collected a large Scoloporus. There was almost no juice in this area so we turned around + returned to the fork mentioned above + took the road to the west (through a gate). We continued up the ridge on the far side of the meadow, over the crest + down the other side. This crest seems to be the main divide; all the hills to the west seemed to be lower with the exception of 2 peaks immediately to our left which we took to be Cerro del Fraguy - or something nearly to it. We continued about 3 miles down the road which descends considerably + wind through margaenta thickets. Since the road was almost petering out, + since it was late + this seemed to be getting us nowhere, we turned around + returned to a small canyon on the east side of this ridge which has a stream - which seems semi-permanent. We made camp here about 1830. While at the fancy dawn I saw a cottontail + a white-eared hummer. After setting up camp, I set out 23 traps in brush grass above the stream from camp + 13 traps on the slope above camp + among rocks, under bushes, + around old stone foundations of old houses. Rain in evening + during night. Started catching animals as soon as we set them out. Saw a few large lots at dawn (look like Edentaria) but weren't able to get any. A sketch of our camp
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LIDILKER 1959 Journal area as it seems at the moment follows: --- site on crest ridge N Barranca del Rico? Lose barranca milk camp. "fancy house" gate TO CONGOJA July 17 Newtoms -2 (in same trap in bunch grass -1 year. Was caught within a few minutes after trap was set) about 5 ft. from small Peromyscus longii -2 (on snowy slope under small trees) Reithrodontomys -2 (1 on rocky outcrop behind camp; one grass +1 in bunch grass) Sigmodon lancastri -2 (1 on snowy slope; also saw an adult run from trap with spring in it ; other was from bunch grass) Peromyscus difflcis -17 (everywhere including bunch grass) Did not get a Sciurus polistes up the creek from camp in an oak tree. Picked up traps on slope above camp but left out those in bunch grass. Caught 2 more Sigmodon during day. Skinned most of day. Rain most of
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal afternoon light rain intermittently in evening. Birds seen around camp include: Striped Sparrow, Vireo with eyering + wing bars, Curve-bill Thrasher, Dark Jay, Bluebird. At dusk set out 21 traps on rocky slope down stream from camp. Checked traps about 2300. At dusk saw a number of Pipit eating + Dave shot one. Also seemed to be a few smaller bats around. Wrote notes in evening. About 2330 pm, small bats were seen flying near a tree by the stream + Ned shot 1 Myotis velifer. July 18 Picked up all traps except 4 set traps in the thick snow which I reverted with rainers. Made 3 gopher sets. Catch: bunch grass - Raithkovskitomp - 1 Parampus difficle - 1 rock outcrops - Nectomes - 2 pp. Parampus sp. (maniletos or nelandotis - unidentified froglike) - 1 P. difficile - 9 Took walk out into main valley below camp + back up on hill to ENE of camp. Birds seen include: Striped Sparrow, W. Bluebird, Scrub Jay, Lower Goldfinch, Bell's Seeded Grosbeak, Violet-ear Swallows Spotted Towhee, Robin, Brandt's Hummer, White-eared Hummer, Bench's Spotted Fulmaros, Cactus Kingbird, Worm-birds, House Wren. Some Vireo seen repeatedly. Dark Jay (around camp), Flicker (dark), Dark Juncos (abund.). I also flushed a caprimulgus from a small oak thicket which was pale brown, had white in tail but no white in wings. Bush tits around camp. Lots of gopher signs.
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(July 18 cont.) saw. Also found some droppings which contained what or squirrel vertebrae and was about the size of a fox or small coyote. Checked gopher traps about 1800; had 2 gophers; set 3 more sets. Did not shoot another Sciurus fuliginosus in Am while I skinned. This time he say it was in a pine tree. Mexicans stopped by camp around 1830. He said there were small white tailed deer and especially a little higher up; also lots of coyotes. He did not know a javelina. He calls a gopher a topo, and Pseudathis a tiger. He was hunting cottontails and said there were no rabbits in the immediate area. Earlier in the day he had told Dave that there were Deer and colobus in the area also. Set out 22 traps along rock out cropping upstream from our camp. Was a small print of Nasturus sign - see. Checked Sigunda sets about 1815- nada. Saw ser. Epiternius got stuck but couldn't get any. Caught a Rana in the stream. Last night I saw a large green Rana in the stream which looked like it might have been piping - seemed definitely different from one caught tonight. Hard rain in afternoon + sprinkles in evening. Both today or yesterday we saw a large yellow bird and camp which looked like a Blue-throated. When setting out traps caught 1 P. difficilis within 10 seconds after setting the trap. Were several hard showers during the night.
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal July 19 Catch: Neostoma - 1 ad, 4 j + 1 juv. (latter discarded) from same trap - rocky outcrops. Paronyxus difficultis - 14 Thompson murbrimo - 2 Also caught a small scaled Sceloporus at base of stump near camp + later shot a large scaled black Sceloporus who was sunning himself on a stump. Picked up traps including 4 sets set in bunch grass for Sigrida. Took walk from about 1000 - 1130 up canyon. Shot a S Sciurus fulvipes. It was a small oak in a rocky area about 1/2 way up E slope of canyon. I noticed it while squawking for birds + it seemed as if it might have been attracted by the squawking. Skinned catch minus the difficultis & took a bath in the creek. Sun was shining from about 830 to 1415. This is the most sun we've had so far in this camp. Small amt of rain in late afternoon. While walking in canyon in AM saw: May Fly, Acan Woodpecker, Flicker, Spotted Towhee, Mex. Jays, Robin, Bluebird, Bunting Wren, Bark-tailed Pigeon, Broad-tailed Hummingbird (singing). Made 2 carrion sets just before dinner - 1 & no. 4 trap set near the exit of a trail + small canyon + another no. 2 trap in rocky outcrop where I set traps last night. Noticed some droppings along trail which were about [illegible]
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LIDICKER 1959 journal (July 19 cont.) the size of a large fox or coon; they were placed on rocks along the trail & contained many berries (marguinta?). Also set 4 rat traps for Sigmon in patch of brush grows up canyon from camp. After dinner set 35 traps in short grass on hill E of camp. Are scattered jimpas, small rats, marguinta, etc., but in general is very open. Also set 1 Schtyler along rocky outcrops below camp. Picked up both remaining gopher sets. Watched for bats from about 1945 to 2030, [illegible] from new crest of hill E of camp. Saw only 2 Eptesicus & got one of them. Both were flying very high. This was the first evening since the night we arrived in camp that there wasn't a light rain at dusk. There is a full moon & it is quite cold. Heard Por-wills & Whis-fur-wills calling abundantly. Autopsied Paromus difficult for reproductive condition which was to be thrown away: 8 cd. from July 18 - 5 ♂♂ - all with desc. tests 3♀♀ - 2 no amb, non-ferns imp. 1 '', , ferms (fairly recent fertus, but not lact.) 14 cd. from July 19 - 8 ♂♂ - all with desc. tests 1 ♂ - tests 11.5 mm + with scrotum, probably desc. class. 5♀♀ - 3 no amb, ferms imp. 1 w/o amb, otf. ferso, but with no pl. sacs, imp 1 '', , ferq., stern in thorx, wife full n gg.cl. 5 cd. caught by Dave during of July 19 - 3 ♂♂ - all with desc. tests 2♀♀ - 2 no amb, imp, non-ferns Several rain showers during night.
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal July 20 Catch: Peromyscus truei - 1 (tree trunk, oats) Peromyscus difficilis - 4 (2 from wood shrub & large + 2 from Szigethian sets in bunch grass) Peromyscus sp (unus-local) - 2 (from field open ground with few tree shrubs - same as adjacent traps). Notting = 2 carnivore sets. While picking up 4 out traps in bunch grass saw a large alligator lizard. I packed off + shot it with .38 but this didn't seem to bother it & it ran under the bunch grass. I searched through the grass & finally spotted it + grabbed it. While checking carnivore sets, I saw an adult red-tailed hawk. While showing a machete bright me in 2 large Rara, + another fellow brought one. Physicians while he said he caught crossing the rd. I asked this fellow when Cavo del Jaging was & he pointed due South & said it was 5 or 6 km. distance. Later I asked another fellow who pointed in the same direction, but didn't know the distance. Another fellow had heard of Chichimico (+ the latter did not react to a picture of a chipmunk). The 2nd fellow said there were Gavolinos around & that lobos regularly killed cattle. Started raining about 1600 & continued into the evening. I climbed up the mountain to the ENE [unclear] + saw 46 traps in the rim rock near the top v. There is also a send (8700 ± ft.)
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LIDICKER 1959 journal (July 20 cont.) look around the base of the rocks & lower down mangosita. On top of the mt. is a fairly level area with scald oak & mangositas. There are quite a few finas high up on the slopes. Saw Acorn Woodpecker, Steller's Jay & H. Pigeon & a small worn which might have been a Barred but differentely had no tufting tips to the tail, but fine barring on the ventral side of the tail & a good distinct eye stripe; was in scald oak. At the base of the rim rocks I could look out & see a large fraction of Arizonacaliente. I sketched a map as follows: Sierra del Laurel x - another peak (2nd highest than jagging) rrr Carrizal de la Jague (looks like 3-4 mi. away) all low country Cg. (Leverance?) (del Rio?) road to Crest & gate stream ridge? middle camp road to Cargajo N checked 2 rat traps set for Sigurdson & much grass while returning from trophy in AM. Had caught nothing. After dinner set 2 new carnivore traps below camp - 1 a no. 2 steel at base of tree in small side canyon to the prec we are camped in, & the other (a #1 jump trap) at base of tree in open valley. Used Paomopus difficilis as bait. Anticipated 7 P. difficilis from morning catch which was to be thrown away. All were adults.
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal 4 cl. ♂♂ - 3 with desc. teeth + 1 ♀ with teeth ? no lateral to jaws, but no obvious ectostom. 3 cl. ♂♀ - 1 - w sub, non-femur, wings. 2 - " , apparently females, but no claws pd. scara (1 was possibly just & the other had a little dried blood on vulva). It seems possible that these 2 might have just mated & have the swollen legs, but no definite sign for mating could be seen. Several storms during night. July 21 Catch: min rock (87 at ± f4) (2 traps lost) Paramyces difficile - 18 Nestor's refricain - 1 Also caught a small hybrid which was hopping about on the rocks. Found large carnivore dropping saw with 1 of my missing traps were. The dropping were ~ 15/16 in. or so in diameter, were light colored, & contained magnite larva. Of 2 traps in bunch grass, caught 1 P. difficile . Pithed these 2 traps up & reset 2 set traps about 3/4 way up slope to min rock in grassy area where were mowing & hares which looked just like those of Sigirion mining. One of carnivore sets (#2 trap) had been sprung but caught nothing. Saw Painted Robinet while fixing up traps. Also found the nest of a Mex. juncos which was on the ground in the oak thicket & contained 3 eggs. After shining woodrat + 4 difficile, I washed out 4 pins of rocks taking advantage of a small ant. I sunbath in bed in the middle of the afternoon. It started raining about 11/0 & continued until mid afternoon. Autopsied 12 unskinned Paramys
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L)DICKER 1959 Journal difficults from 870+ ft. Were 9 cd, 3? - all w/ desc. tails. 3cd, ?? : a) no emb, ind, farsm b) ring, 2 watery bulges in left horn (first, very early emb.) which was quite sd. Larger than the horn width. 2 large cl. in left or.; not virgin. c) recent portion of 2 emb but does not seem to be last; where swollen, 1 ridge full of very new cl. in [illegible] back over; no obvious other cl.; middle medium. Climbed rock up on mountain & set 42 traps among rocks for Nelsonia. Found droppings on one rock which was apparently Bassariscus. They were small, dark, & pointed, & contained fur. & set at S[tr] Schyle - trap new where I found the droppings. Went up an open grassy hill at dusk to watch for bats At 2000 an Epileurus went our high but I saw it too late. This was the only bat I saw in spite of the fact that conditions seemed ideal - calm, not raining, & not too cold. Had late dinner, after which I took some more bait to one of my skunk sets. Dave went hunting in Pm & shot 1 Sylvilagus floridanus (near a rock wall up th canyon) & 1 Sciurus foliopus. On way up to set traps in late afternoon, picked up 2 rat traps set for Sigistda merinus. Both contained S. leucotis (#s 2104 & 2105). Were several rain showers during night. July 22 Picked up traps on mountain. Catch: Peromyscus diffiult - 16. Also picked up another one of those small hybrids, which was hopping almost on rocks. Lost 2 traps. Pleased a ? Preso's Quail on way up hill. Also heard Ravens, saw Bluebirds, Spotted Towhee, Epilomys foliopus
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(Aug 22 cont.) (this is the 3rd time in this camp that I've seen this species feeding on open grassland), Wh-eared Hummingbird, & another humming bird which seemed to have a solid magma back. Nothing in carnivore sets, although one (a # 2) had been spring. Returned to camp & skinned 2 Squirrel & some Peromyscus caught by Ned. Our return friend stopped by camp with another Physicist. He offered to try & shoot us a javalier, I offered him 25 jesus for 1. I also asked him about Barancan del Rio, & he said that it is the one near the
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LIDICKER 1959 (July 22 cont.) Thought was Rock Wren. After dinner I added fruit to my no.4 trap & also to my other no.2 trap. Set out 15 mins. Spec. in rocky cany canyon well above camp in flows which were not open with small rocks there like what I have mostly been setting up so now. Several light showers in late afternoon & in evening. At dusk waited for bats on the slope & of camp & in the canyon bottom. Saw none. Did see quite a few myotis velifer & slott ) flying around among the oaks on the slope W of camp. There was a moderate cast. 2 wind blowing during this time. Heard Canyon Wren singing from one of rim rocks where traps are set. The Petunia I was talking to this afternoon said that the area in which we as camped & particularly the valley below camp is called "Tamascelas". He couldn't write or read so he couldn't check my transliteration. After dusk I autopsied the P. diffilis which were to be thrown away. The 16 cd. from 850 +/- ft. were as follows: 2 cd. ?/0 w/ desc. teeth; 1 cd. / w/ teeth. 5.5 mm. inactive; 1 cd. jwr. looking / with teeth & mm., not desc. + spid. tub. not distinct. 7 cd. ??: a) nfp, no embd. 5 pl. scns, nipples lg., but not lact. b) snp, no embd, non-female c) perf, 2 emb x17 mm. d) imp, no embd. but lightly healed; horns st. enlarged; 2 cd. in rt. ov. + 1 in left. e) nfp. 3 emb x 5 mm.; rt. ov w/1 cl. (1 emb in rt horn); 2 cd. in left ov. (2 emb left horn). f) nfp, 2 emb x16 mm. (1 cd. + 1 emb. in ea. side) g) imp. 4 emb x11 mm. (2 each horn); rt. ov. w/2 cl, left ov. w/3 cl.
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal. (July 22 cont.) 13 cd. P. difficilis from 8200± ft. were as follows: 8 cd. ♂♂ - all w/desc. parts. 5 cd. ♀♀: a) no antb. nip, non-femur b) " , part. or lightly healed, horns sl. enlarged, 2 cl. in nt. w. + 1 lg. full; 1 cl. + 2 c.c. in wt. vs. c) no antb. part. or lightly healed, horns sl. enlarged; wt. vs. w/2 cl., left or w/3 cl. d) nip, wt. eaten by some canine (cobras front ½ & annul) e) no antb. nip, horns sl.enlarged; 1 c.c. + 1 horn full. or wt. vs.; left or w/2 c.c. + 2 horn full. Caught a small Scleromys in short grass around camp (#2111). This was the first night with little or no rain. Bird list for this camp: Turkey Vulture Red-tailed Hawk resident Accipiter (about size ? & Cooper's Hawk) - WZL Mearns Quail - fairly com. Band-tailed Pigeon - com. Otus trichopsis (NKJ coll. 2) - I also heard them Gst. H. Owl - NKJ Elf Owl? (Ned thought he heard them) Whip-poor-will - heard along 1 night & occasionally other nights Poor-will - heard abundantly White-eared Hummingbird - freq. (sar. nets found) Broad-tailed .. . -com. Knoli .. . resident, Raptor-backed species - WZL (looked up and solid nfro)
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LIDICKER 1959 journal (Jul 22 cont.) resident Trogen - I heard first morning in camp & doubly scared. Red St. Helen - com. Acon Woodpecker - com. Dendrocopos sp. (Dave saw 1 + Ned saw 1 flying over & heard a possible note) Cassin's Kingbird - few Contopus pertinax - com. Contopus richardsonii - Ned shot 1 but did not save it. Ejitorox pulifrons - freq. Vermilion Flycatcher - species (only 1 seen) Violet-gr. Shallow - com over meadows Raven - heard croaking a no. of times Mex. Jay - com. Steller's Jay - NKT + DT (.1 species) Scrub-jay ? (WZL) - I saw in oak thicket Pine wolveren - NKT + DT Bust-fit (black-eared) - troops seen frequently WL-br. Nuthatch - com. Berwick's Warbler - few seen House Wren - seen seen Rock Wren - sev. seen on rim rock Canyon Wren - 1 heard singing from rim rock Curve-billed Thrasher - com. Robin - freq. esp. on higher slopes Bluebird (mostly W - at least some have white backs) Azure Throst ? wkb Nuttall's ? Vireo - 2 spec. ; sev. others seen. Painted Robastrit - sev. seen.
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L DICKER 1959 Journal Hepatic Tanager? - Dave saw a red bird in pine at distance. Black-headed Grosbeak - few on higher slopes (Spain). Lesser Goldfinch - few. Prey finches - around. Black-kested Siskin - 1 (NKJ) 5 Striped Sparrows (around). Spotted Towhee - around. Brown Towhee - 2 in meadows (NKJ). House Finch - 3 (NKJ.) July 23 Picked my traps. Castil: Rincon - Nestor mexicanus -1 Paromys dipillus - 9, 2 additional & lost 8 traps including 2 rat traps apparently to carnivores, & at least 3 more traps apparently rolled by carnivores. Hole Sugar-top spring & dragged, but nothing in it. Other Barrassius set was untouched. While on hill I saw a Thrush (same thrush call note) which acted like a robin, but was white ventrally, had a white border to the end of the tail + had dark markings of some kind on the head. Also saw Rock Wren, Spotted Towhee, & head Green-backed Quail. In 15-trap rocky slope drive camp I had 10 P. dipillus. Checked other 3 carnivore sets & troughs in both no.2 steel, leaving out only the #4 which had some of bait scattered. Shunned Nestor, 2 diff. + 2 Nestorina + a Sigriston J Davis No.2117
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LIDICKER 1957 Journal (Jul 23 cont.) was caught on a fairly dry slope by a small house built in a heather-tail clump. No. 2118 was taken from a rocky slope just below camp. Packed away some specimens. Rain started about 1500 + stopped at about 1700. I took 1 of the 2 #2 steel + 2 wood-net corners + climbed back up on the net. Relocated Beechnies set already out - with 1 Newton corner + 1 Spotted Triche (poorly killed). Made additional set away 1 wood-net corners + 1 Bell-holed Grasshopper (poorly killed) as bait. Returned to camp for dinner. It began to rain again about 1900. Dave took last no. 2 steel + set it also on net, using 2 Mex. jumps for bait. I watched for bats in central or slope to W of camp. Saw several Myotis religiosus (apparently) but couldn't get any. Shortly after they began to fly it began to rain harder & they disappeared. Autopsied throw-away P. difpilis after dark + compiled bird list for camp with Ned. 13 ad. P. diff. from open grazing hillside (NkT), 8200±ft with scattered oaks & junipers, + clover some scotched with bearing grass trees. 9 ad. ?? - all with desc. texts. 4 ad ?? - a) no ends, femurs, lightly holed wings. b) " c) " , imp., 9 pl. scars d) " , femurs 10 ad. from open rocky slopes above camp (WkL), 8200±ft. 4 ad. ?? - all w/ desc. texts 6 ad ?? - a) 3 ends x 3 mm (2 mt, 2cl mt, 1 ndt, 1 cl dt.) imp. b) imp., lightly holed, non-femurs; ovaris w/ sev. eg. follic. c) imp., non-femurs, no ends d) " e) " . 2 cl. n. mt. (W); f) " g) " . med. sized foll. n dt.
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal b) imp, forming no emb; 2 cl. in rt. ov. 9 cl. from rocky area along stream (DT), 8200 ± ft. 6 cl. 3♂ - w/desc. tests 1 cl. ♂ - test. not clearly desc, 5 mm, spid. tub. visible anteriorly 2 cl ♀♀ - a) perf. or lightly healed to emb, forming, 1 cl. in rt. ov., 2 in lt. b) imp, 5♂♂ scars, 1 cl. in rt. ov., 3 in lt.; no emb. 11 cl. from dry grass & shrubs (3 in rock cells) (DT), 8200 ± ft. This group separated to some extent from area around camp by far removed. 7 cl. 3♂ - all w/desc. tests 4 cl ♀♀ - a) 2 emb x 21 mm., 1 in ea horn, 1 cl. in ea. ov. This ridine possibly from manganese-rich area (DT) b) imp, forming no emb., 6 cl. in lt. ov. (2 age spots ? 3 cc); 1 cl. in rt. ov. c) 2 emb x 27 mm. both in rt. horn, 2 cl. in rt. ov., none in left; imp. d) imp, forming, 7♂♂ scars, nippers red.; 3 lg. foll. in lt horn or + 1 in rt. 9 cl. diff. from rim rock (WCL); 8700 ± ft. 6 cl. 3♂ - all w/desc. tests 3 cl. ♀♀ - a) imp., 3 emb x 13 mm., 1 out; + 1 cl. on rt. side, 2 ea. on lt. b) imp, forming no emb where at liberty, 3 cl. in rt. ov., 1 in lt. c) imp, 6♂♂ scars no emb, 6 cl. in lt. ov. none in rt. + total of both horns. July 24 Packed my canoe gear. The other difficult while I had left a cutting chart.) steel seat was gone but the trip was not troubled. The other seat also was not troubled. Dave had the fruit stolen from 1 of his trips but also caught nothing. We packed up the camp & left at 1006. Saw a Syklopes & Brown Tarher near Camp. 4 mi. from camp we entered the large ravine.
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(July 24 cont.) when we had run the rock squirrels on the way in & saw another is almost the exact same spot. We asked to her about the name of this terrance & as we approached it was Barranca Juan Francisco. At La Corzoja (9.4 mi. from camp) we saw a Sparrow Hawk. Beyond La Corzoja (1.7 mi further) we stopped & took a picture of the Swain Trio. This was just before the road goes the over the creek into the valley of Three Celles, 2.8 mi from La Corzoja we saw another couple of rock squirrels. This was along the steep east slope of the ridge. About 1/2 mi below our old camp (night of July 15) we saw a Scaled Quail & heard [illegible] growing. Dave jumped & out & shot it & thry, with 1 shot; & while field dressing the shot egg he saw a rattlesnake which he also collected. This was slightly less than 3 mi. above a small town where the road makes a rd. & bend. We asked about the name of the town & the answer sounded like San Antonio de los Rios. Just beyond this village we saw a ground squirrel which looked like C. fulvescens & 3 Mouring Doves. We also shot a Scajoforus & another 1 half a mi. further. Half mi. further we saw Blue Grosbeaks, Vermillion Flycatcher. 5 mi. beyond San Antonio we saw a Say's Phoebe & lost a third Scajoforus. About 1 mi. further we saw a Shrike & a Mockingbird; & 2.5 mi. before San Jose de Garcia (this is apparently the name of
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(Aug 24 cont.) the town where the pavement begins & which we had been calling Col. Presidente Cellos) We saw another small squirrel which looked like C. spilonura, just a half mile before the town we crossed a small stream which flowed into the [illegible] We saw a couple of women driving kids into hats & so we stopped & caught 2 individuals from them, & preserved them. The main highway is 7 mi. from San Jose de Saca. We went 5 to Aguesclia where we went to the post office, had lunch, & did some stuffing. Then we headed W toward Calvillo. 8 mi. from Calvillo we thought we saw a group of Red- yagers Cantreds, 1 mi. further we saw a Raven & a Brown Troster, 3 mi. further a Slurker. About 3 mi. from Calvillo we saw a Vermillion Flycatcher, a flock of about 20 Barn Swallows & a Mockingbird. 1/2 mi. further we saw Bristle R. Grackles & Dove Doves, just over 1 mi. from Calvillo we saw another Vermillion Flycatcher. We crossed the arroyo to the NW of Calvillo & looked on a dirt road to the NW (W of the rd. to La Labor). About 2 mi. down this road we saw a Curve billed Thrush, & 3 mi. further a Songbird. We camped about 6 mi. down this road (4 1/2 mi. NW Calvillo). We saw another Songbird, around camp & I got an cd. Raven. We set out traps at dusk. I set out over 26 traps in lush areas including 2 Neotoma
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DICKER 1954 sets. We waited for bats & I saw 1 flying fast + low. Also heard a few flying over large tree couldn't see them. Also saw 15 traps in open mequite, cactus etc. July 25 Ceddl: 26 traps in lush area - Peromyscus pectoralis - 2, Neonotome - 1, Baiasump - 5, Perognathus nelsoni - 1, Liomyp - 5, & Peromyscus maniculatus - 2 15 traps in open - P. maniculatus - 7 & Dipodomys [scribble] ornatus - 1. Skinned ccdl. That evening set out 11 traps in small canyon behind camp (quite lush) + made 3 carnivore sets. Also set out 3 traps for Sigmodon. Saw a large Sigmodon run into vegetation from path while setting traps. Stung both hot bats along small canyon when Dave had seen a number of bats flying low last night. At dusk I saw 1 bat which sat by foot & I didn't get a shot at it. Also heard sow go on high again. Also skinned a big Sigmodon while Ned had shot. Dave also saw sev. Sigmodon + made 3 carnivore sets. July 26 Ceddl: Nothing in carnivore sets or Sigmodon sets (left out 3 Sigmodon sets). & 11 traps behind camp had 1 Sigmodon hispidus (jun.) + 1 Liomyp. Skinned those + a Perognathus caught by Dave & a rock squirrel shot by Ned yesterday. During
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LIDICKER 1959 (July 26 cont.) During evening I heard a frog call from a rocky area along one of the small canyons which had no look of water in it which sounded like a reptile called of some sort. About lunch time I spotted a pair of Bob-white feeding on the opposite side of the small canyon behind camp. Dave was in the bottom of the canyon & I guided him to them as they ran off into the brush. He flushed them & shot the first one & skinned. Bob-whites incidentally were abundant around camp. We also heard quite a few Meas Quail &Scaled Quail. The 3 Bob-White (w26#2/4) had its crop full of prickly pear fruit & a few odd seeds. It also had a piece of a leaf, but no insects or herbs. About the middle of the afternoon we packed up & moved camp. Returned to Calvillo & then took road N to La Labor. The rd apparently ends at La Labor & we returned about 1/2 mi. to camp on the slope above the road. It was open shrubbed with small trees & prickly pear. I set out about 25 traps along the edge of a ridge & near the river in lovely & groving areas. While setting traps I saw a large Squirrel [illegible] watched for but at dusk, saw one, but couldn't get it. Neld saw several (sev. mgs) flying over the trees along the road. I was watching near the river. Most of our activities were hindered by constant visits of Mexicans. Were several light showers during the
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LIDICKEN 1959 night. Rem trigline before going to bed. July 27 Catch: Peromyscus maniculatus - 9 Bassonings - 4 Saginawus lepidorus - 1 (pair) Dr of the fellows from La Labor brought us 2 pair specimens. ? Rattus rattus. We try to skin catch but we were bothered so much by Mexicans that we quit skinning & packed up camp & left about 1330. Nedd shot a Monotes mexicana, a froggy owl, & a resident ? genus in this camp & saw several more hot-nuts. On way back to Colilla we saw a number of Cittellus variegatus along rock walls. About 4-1/2 mi. north N of Colilla we saw a pair of Bist-white Cross the road & Dave got them both with 1 shot. We continued E toward Aguas calientes, then turned S on the road to Villa Hidalgo & shot way W of the city. We began checking for the estate line & finally found it approximately (although there was some disagreement among our informants). We returned N until we were about 3 km. N of the boundary & camped. This is an open area with scattered shrubs & small trees & some prickly pear, but with ground almost completely covered with greass. We saw what must have been a Cittellus sahelozona right near camp. After setting up We returned to previous camp to pick up 3 rimula bags which I had forgotten yesterday.
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal the last, I set out 34 traps in the swammy areas, under stands etc., & also in the more open area over the road & including 4 sets for Citellus (by holes). At dusk we watched for frets. I heard a number go over high but didn't see any. A local resident told us that there were both jack-rabbits & cottontails in the area. Heard frogs calling from ford to W of camp. Ran trap line before going to bed, but caught nothing. Shot 1 Dipidhump anates. [crossed out text] Was quite a few night birds (C minor?) around at dusk. Was almost no rain during night. Slept until quite late. July 28 Picking traps, but reset 2 of the rat traps at better looking Citellus burrows & left out total of 4 rat-traps. Cotel: D. anates - 2 Heard meadowlarks singing, song sounded like they began with the W. song & ended with the E. Also saw a pair of Scalded Quail & heard a number of Bob-white calling. Slept early, packed up camp & left about 11/5. This camp was 2 mi. by rd. S of Los Canos & 13.8 mi. by rd. S of jet. with Calirillo rd. Ago., about ~5 mi. beyond this jet. In Aguas calientes we went to the post office, bought gas & then headed for Zuchecologas. About 1 mi. E of Despardicio we saw a grand squirrel run across the road which may have been C. rescarius or variegatus. 4 mi. W of
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal Jalozotiklan I saw c & Bst-white, I got a good look at it & noticed its nasty underparts. We got to San Felipe in time to do some shopping in the mercado. Then we got a hotel, had dinner, & a carriage. July 29 Continued W & N to Nayarit. Saw a Mex Band Squirrel somewhere near Tecuala . 21 mi. S (by Rd) of San del Rio (Nayarit) we stopped & saw saw a ro. I Arnoptilia muricanda - one was singing, 3 mi. S of the jet. to San Blas we stopped again. We saw c chat & I sawe woodpecker whick had a barred back & golden yellow rafe & probably crown. I could not see its ventral side. 8 mi. N of the San Blas jet, we saw a beaded lizard run across the road (Heloderna). 10 mi. N of this jet, we stopped by a small ford & saw: Pied Br Tzrde -2 Mexican Zrde -4 (saw 1 Pied Br. close a Mex Zrde in their; the Mex. Drdes in general seemed chozy staying more in the fringes of the vegetation. Dorby Flycatcher -3 Vermilion cr. Flycatcher (similar) -6+ "Buffy-happed" Seedeater -4 Boat H. Snr cde - saw. Amor Egret -1 Snorer killed Ani -2 Jacana -2
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LIDICKER 1959 Journal (July 29 cont.) Mex Cormorant - 2 And. Caracara - 1 1 mi. beyond this point the road crosses the Rio Santiago. 10 migs N of the Rio we saw c DOR armadillo, 1 mi. further we saw an oriole of the hooded type. I could see the black throat patch & that the patches were brighter orange than the belly; it was larger than an ordinary hooded oriole. We also saw 2 juncos here which had bluish wings & probably an orange forehead, & dark rattle. Van Dammer - Ryeater. 26 mi. N of San Blas turnoff we saw a Green Heron, & 2 mi. further there was a DOR cat of some sort which was about the size of crossed out dog a crossed out bobcat, had a black tail with whitish rings, faint brown spots on a tan background. On the stretch from 19 mi. N of Rio Santiago's to 25 mi. N we saw 10 Jacanas. We also saw several more Mex. Cuckoo, crowd of Ants, 5 grebes & close of Blue-black Grosbeak. 27 mi. N of Rio Santiago's we saw a Pch - killed (Burtonian crossed out Ivory billed) Woodpecker. There were also fork-tailed kingfishers all along the road. 38 mi. N Rio Santiago we saw c meadowlark & 10 mi. further 2 Yellow winged Caciques (we had been seeing many vultures, but since this was the hottest part of the day, we didn't see any of the vultures). 53 mi. N Rio Santiago's we found 2 large iguana's DOR - we saved the smaller which was in better shape. Another mi. down the road we stopped
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LIDILKON 1959 Journal (July 29 cont.) To watch a group of large grey white near blue looking black headed, v was very large (at least 16"). We noticed some individuals with yellow bills which were begging for food although apparently full-grown. At this spot we also saw what was apparently 4 orange-fronted parakeets. 1 mi. further we saw another green heron and 5 more mi, a yellow cr. Night Heron (ad). 29 mi. S of (by rd) Escuinapa we began seeing Elegant Quail; we saw a pair at this point and also picked up a live leiostrisid of some sort. In the next 8 mi. we saw 4 more pairs of Elegant Quail, and shot 1 & at 21 mi. S (by rd.) Escuinapa, and also 1 And. Certhaca. 15 mi. from Escuinapa (S) we saw another jacana and a flock of parrots. 8 mi. S of Escuinapa we picked up a Heloderna DO R. 1 mi. N of Escuinapa we saw a Mex. Cormorant, and 13 mi. N we crossed over a large river. 6 mi. N of this river we saw 2 white-winged doves. 3 mi. further we saw another jacana and a flock of 12-15 black swifts. We continued to Magdalena where we arrived about dusk. We fed dinner then after checking the mercados and finding it in the process of closing. We continued N to Culiacan where we bought gas and drove about 1/2 mi. S and NNW on a dirt road where we threw out our sleeping bags for a few hours at about 0300.
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LIBICKON 1959 It was still quite warm with a few mosquitos. July 30 We got up about 0600 + went into Culiacan. We bought some food + a couple of baskets + continued N. We saw Black-bellied tree ducks flying over Culiacan. 57 mi. S of Guamuchil we saw a small group of jacuquets which had green wings. 10 mi. further we saw a Linedated Woodpecker (this is 2 mi. S Agua Salada). 2 mi. N of Guamuchil we saw ground doves & w. w. doves. About 8 mi. S of the Los Mochis turnoff we found a large snake DOA which was black with yellow splotches on its belly, but it was in bad shape so we left it. Several miles N of the Los Mochis jet. I saw 2 large squirrels which looked like rock squirrels that were quite brown. We had lunch in Navojoa (late). 39 mi. S of the jet to Benjamin Hill the truck hit a sparrow hawk which we kept. 12 mi. N of this jet we had a good look at a Caracara; 13 mi. N of jet, is Est. Llano. It got dark between Santa Ana & Magdalena. After going through customs in Nogales we had a late snack in Nogales, Ariz. Then we continued on to Tucson, Casa Grande + toward Yuma July 31 It got light as we pulled into Yuma. We had breakfast in Holtzville + continued N to Dulce
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(aug 31 cont.) + San Bernardino ; lunch in Bakersfield ; continued N to Berkeley where we arrived about 22.15.
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