Field notes, v1360
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Hoffmeister 1941 Itinerary April 14 Mouth Devils Canyon, 5 mi. NW San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co., Cal. Set 30 mouse traps and 2 rat traps at the above locality. It rained considerably during the night, but not enough to spring any traps. Caught 7 Peromyscus maniculatus and 3 Dipodomys gigas(?). One Dipodomys had freshly cut green twigs in its cheek pouches; one was lactating but without embryos. The male Peromyscus had the testes enlarged and protruding. April 15 Lone Pine, Inyo Co., Calif. Left San Bernardino and drove to Barstow, thence north 7 mi., turning thence west towards the Barstow fossil beds in search of "Rodent Hill." Went out this road about 2 mi. & turned north on a road marked "Rainbow Basin" - 2 miles and "Sager Butte" - 2 miles (Sager may be misspelled because the 3rd letter was poorly discernible upon the post mutilated sign). 4 mi. up this latter road led to the base of some hills. From here on the road bed was washed out due to recent rains, in which a stream had flowed down the road. My wife & I walked a distance up the roadway, noting many places in which there was bluish clay seemingly suitable for fossil deposits. We searched only for a short while, returning to the car without finding to our knowledge "Rodent Hill." Returned to Barstow, drove to Baker, San Bernardino County, northward via Shoshone to Death Valley Junction. Drove into Death Valley along Furnace Creek & out of the valley by way of Torone's Pass, across the Panamints, dropping down into Panamint valley, thence over the Argus Range into Keeler,