LIDICKER 1974 10 Dec. After breakfast drove to downtown San Diego to get mexican insurance & tourist cards. Then headed for Tecate on Calif. 94. Birds noted on this stretch: mockingbird sitting Red H. Hawk Cooper's Hawk In Tecate we stopped to buy some ceviche at the hotel next on the highway to Mexicali. We were looking for a locality where Chester Lamb caught Mircus californicus in 1927. It was 16 mi. by rd. S of Tecate and then about 2 mi. N on a diminutive road = N. end Nachogueno Valley, 3400 ft. At 16 mi. by rd., E we found a dirt road going N so we took it a west 2 mi. & which point we came to a dry stream bed & an abandoned house. There were a few scattered willows along the creek bottom & a small grove of oak trees. A little further on were 3 small meadows - quick succession. We stopped for lunch beyond the third & then explored the creek bed for quite a way. There were a few additional willows but no brush or reeds & of course no water even though there had been a lot of rain in the past few weeks. We helped the rancher from the third house start his settled truck. He said his well was 40 ft. deep & it was only a few rods from the stream course. We decided to check the next valley to the east, so we took a bad dirt track which runs off Hwy, parallel to the main highway - 1 mi. from it over miles west until we came to another dirt road going N.NW along the next