Murray 1448 Journal July 5 10 mi SE Mesquital, 400± ft., Baja Calif. Leaving silt flats, gullies, and unwashed strips. Put 20 traps in rather soft silt with sand bars and occasional rocky sections, and bearing mostly a dense growth of mesquite, fruitia and other green leaved bushes, with cholla and pitahaya. With 1 traps worked up over an “island” of hard gravel and rock, yucca, cactuses and a few low bushes. On the east side of the wash is a cliff about 25-feet high and above it a barren and forbidding slope of dense small rocks with just a little yucca, ocotillo and low shrubs. Ran the rest of the traps along the top, and then the face of the cliff, which was a conglomerate of medium sized rock in a sandy, almost concrete-like base. In this saw several woodrat holes. There are linnets in the wash. Today there was a broad blanket of clouds in the morning which remained to a large extent all day. In the evening went out looking for snakes or possibly Coleonyx, but found nothing.