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Lundricken
1950
Journal
June 20 Went with three de Aguiro boys and
a neighbor boy (in my car) to mountains
west of San Marcos (Sierra de Jitlan).
About 1/3 of way, at ranch settlement called
Puerto de Cocker, collected Gymnidophorum
and Scelopus with slingshot. Went on
over about 10 miles of exceedingly rough,
washed-out road to Rancho El Rodeo,
another ranch settlement and charcoal depot
well up in the mountains. Major tree cover
at El Rodeo is Quercus macrophylla,
a very large-leaved oak growing about 20-35 ft.
high as seen here. Pines (?) or other conifers
were visible at higher altitudes, but were
not reached. The country is much-worked
by charcoal burners and no extensive dense
plant cover exists anywhere we visited.
Water was standing or flowing at many
points in arroyo bottoms, but high ground
seemed quite dry. Collected two Bufo and
two Hyla arenicolor (?) from burrows
exposed by rolling large boulders (5 to a team,
rolling 3' x 5