Field notes, v1335
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Hafner, M.S. Journal 1974 5 October various locales approximately 5 miles NE of (cont) Johannesburg, San Bernardino Co., California 3200 ft. "Camp 1 and 2" Younger fellows were rather cold and showed distrust of me. I told the old man that I was trapping "rats" and he suggested I set some around his place to rid him of "them darn pack rats". One of the younger guys said that they had recently shot one of their dogs which was rabid (Possibly Plague?) I checked traps with following results: 5.5 mi. ENE Johannesburg, San Bernardino Co., California 3200 ft [T29S R41E SE¼ sec 23] "Camp 2" 1 Neotoma lepida 12 Perognathus formosus 4 Dipodomys merriami 2 Dipodomys panamintinus Success = 19/100 = 19% Since I captured some D. panamintinus here, I cannot consider this a D. merriami allopatric area so I didn't keep any of the animals. I drove back to Camp 1 noting an adult