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68.
Gilmore
1926
El Mayor, 30 ft. Hardy River, Lower Calif. Mexico.
April 28, 1926.
13 traps caught
3 Peramyscus
180. Perognathus ♀ 12.7G. 5/2-21-4 Caught in rocky draw in alluvial fan.
181. Perognathus ♀ 17.2-G. 12/4-40-22-6 Same as above.
182. Peromyscus ♂ 11.8G. 17/6-10/-21-18 Caught in bare rocks in foothills.
183 Perognathus ♀ Rocky draw in alluvial fan.
(in formalin)
184. Perognathus ♀ Same as above.
(in formalin)
185. Icterus bullockii ♂ (im) 26.0G. Killed while sitting in willow.
(skeleton only)
The 13 traps set among the rocks in the foothills caught only 3 Peromyscus which were so badly eaten by ants during the night that they were worthless. Found a single white egg in a depression in the rocks. It was about the size of a large pullet egg and was set in a large round space with a few vine stems around it. Probably it is the nest egg of a C. a. septentrionales. Caught a Geococcyx californicus in the steel set but it was too far badly mutilated to be used as a specimen.