Murray 1948 65 Journal May 16 4 min N La Paz, S.L., Baja California Caught 10 Perognathus spinatus in the traps. Packed up and left, going into La Paz and then south to Triunfo. Traveled on a good but tooth jarring corduroy road through densely grown country. Here the plants seemed large editions of what we have seen. Pitahaya agria and pitahaya dulce towered 20 feet or more and was greatly branched. Ocotillo, lumbui, matacora and others were trees rather than bushes. There were a number of tall trees over 30 feet high, including guanuchil and Palo zorilla. Found that many of the plants were new to us, of which we identified cacahillo and junco. Saw a caracara on the way. The ironwoods and mesquite still formed much of the vegetation, along with palo diaro, which looks much like palo verde. Most of these things were dry and leafless, appearing to be dead. Presumably they will leaf out when it rains. They claim that there hasn't been rain of any consequence for 3 years. Arriving at Triunfo, we immediately nosed around for bats. The town seems to have once been a fine, well