LIDICKER 1974 Dec. 15 cont. Become drier as at least lower zonally. Shortly before we stopped to camp, we began to see Larrin Madre. We found though a place it went off to the E same twenty yards - at first along the face of the arid spur & rocky ridge to camp. Bradford & Blang left us at this point as they wanted to get back to San Diego That night Birds saw from Oak Canyon to Camp: Raven ... Red H. Hawk Roadrunner Oryza parva Nuthatch Woodpecker - 1 (Ripped of) Mike's) Archbald Walker Scant dry Kingfisher - Mike's Sky Rancho This camp is on the S. edge of the valley looking from Velle de la Trinidad to San Matias Pass. It is : Low Scrubby Vegetation - Larrin oak hills, Prosopis Lots of cactus & yucca, an excellent spot for 1 species of Arctostaphylus. Lots of dipso size & hammers of kit fox size. Saw of the small ant trips - rocks on slope behind us a row or desert plants. I did not 20 kg coll. Shrubs - plants, thorny ed midnight long & do see a large Tonkawa trap baited with carcass for a kit fox Camp is at 1050 m. accord. to our topo maps. It is 9.2 mi. E & 6.6 mi. S Colonia Cardenas. After dinner we returned to process animals when Bradford & Blang came back as they were not able to get gas in Col. Cardenas. They helped us skin a skunk midnight and put some white bird traps on the rocky slopes.