The kit fox barely enters the area under consideration. In the Joshua
tree belt, below about 3500 feet elevation, tracks were most often noted
in washes and on the adjacent sandy ground. The highest place where
tracks were seen was a small sandy draw below the mouth of Graham Canyon
at an altitude of roughly 3900 feet.
In the Joshua tree belt many old burrows were found but none was
occupied. I believe these foxes are returning to this area where once
they were common. In the winter of 1948 no sign of kit foxes was found,
although intensive field work was done in the Joshua tree belt in the
Mescal Canyon area. In December of 1951, in the same locality, sign was
obvious and an individual was trapped below Grandview Canyon at 3500
feet elevation. Possibly since the use of poison for carnivores has been
discontinued in this district the foxes are repopulating the area.
The one specimen taken, a sub-adult female, weighed two pounds and
fourteen ounces.
_Specimen examined._--Los Angeles Co.: 6 mi. E & 1 mi. S Llano,
3500 ft., 1.
=Urocyon cinereoargenteus californicus= Mearns