Field notes, v1336
Page 343
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Journal Hafner, U.S. 1977 2.4 km. S., 5.0 km. W Mission Santo Domingo, 30 m. Baja California Mexico. 7 July (cont) We kept the Dipodomys then drove to the locality near the mission (which is, by the way, merely ruins now - built in 1775). 2.4 km. W Mission Santo Domingo, 22 m., Baja California, México. Results: 8 Dipodomys success: 10/100 P. maniculatus Neotoma 10 I picked up a Vulpes macrotis skull in very good condition - according to Hall and Kelson there are very few records of kit-foxes in Baja. We drove back to the first locality and prepared the Dipodomys. 1000 - departed this locality and drove south on Hwy 1. The habitat began to change conspicuously as we headed east of El Rosario. We encountered thicker-and-thicker stands of Cardon and eventually more and more Boojum Trees (Idria columnaris). This is a very strange relative of the Ocotillo which and we stopped about 30 miles east of El Rosario to photograph and a particularly nice one. The tree looks