Field notes, v1353
Page 157
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Kendrickson 1950 Journal Aug. 31 Blacks Rock Spring, 4500 ft., San Bernardino Co., Calif. ground. After supper, returned [illegible] to vicinity of spring with Jerry Russell. Saw a large bat (est. 12" + wing span), and took 2 Poorville on the road. Several large, active-looking Woodrat nests near in mesquite near spring. Sept. 1 50 Museum Specials set last night from vicinity of spring in line running roughly N.-S. about 50 yds. W. of road. Took 5 Perognathus fallex and one (im.) Peromyscus crinitus. Bob Norris set 50 traps (in similar orientation to road?) S. of camp in higher country; he took one Dipodomys merriami, 1 Perognathus longimembris, and 1 Peromyscus truei. Jerry Russell and I hunted toward and around the spring in the A.M. The steel trap set at the road fork (quail bait) had been dug out of spring, and the bait stolen. Apparently an experienced coyote was responsible. Left the area untouched; Ward Russell will set a larger trap nearby, using the exposed trap plus scent, as an attraction. At the spring we flushed another deer - a doe. The steel trap at the spring had been.