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San Felipe, S.L. Lower Calif. Mexico.
March 29, 1926.
25 haps caught
1 ♂ Neotoma (immature)
1 ♂ + 1 ♀ Perognathus
43. Neotoma ♀ 173.5 G. 336-155-32-35.
Caught in sandy bushy draw.
44. Dipodomys ♀, 43.7 G. 190-91-37-6.
Like same as above.
45. Elegant Tern ♂ Killed on the beach at high tide.
46. Rattlesnake 66S Found coiled in a round heap near tent by Huey.
Day + Night were very windy + therefore windy, uncomfortable, few land birds being seen. On the beach some Elegant Terns, Ring Billed Gulls, Yellow-legged Gull, California Gull Caspian Tern, Lesser Sand Peldians ..
While in camp in the afternoon,
Mr. Huey discovered a rattler coiled in a round heap in a round depression in the leaves under a Yuccam brush on the side of a sandy bank. Evidently it was asleep but when a string was lowered over his head his tongue flickered forth. He was quite torbid.