8.0 Sanelly 1952 Journal 32 Aug 25 3 mi SW Tres Piedras, 9,000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico. juncon. I collected 2 of these. The first was un- remarkable and in terrible plumage. I only saved a couple of tail feathers on it. The second one which I shot in a tangle of fallen pine barks, had a white patch on its crown, and was a larger bird than most of the juncons I have seen. It is #163 in this catalogue. We had a brisk thunder and hail storm this afternoon as we did yesterday afternoon. We went into Tres Piedras, where the bartender at the Three Rocks Cafe told us that there were a great many "water dogs". We looked for some near, a "pond", which is just a rain-filled pungy where adobe mud is removed, and found 1 small one. It looks like Ambystoma tigrinum. This is a sage-brush desert. The elevation at T.P. is somewhere about 8200 feet. The only vegetation in Sage-Brush. We returned here late and since I can cook now, I set no traps. We plan to leave here tomorrow for Los Alamos to collect Stebbins some salamanders. Aug 26 Broke camp and headed south for Stebbins Plethodon neomexicana type locality. We passed down through good cactus desert, back into the Ternay mountain, south of Los Alamos. We climbed back into Canadian zone, which is much drier here. We collected an Ambystoma and a