Quest 1948 Journal 107 June 10 San Juan de la Barradera, 1600 ft. W base Sierra Laguna Baja Calif. The large Cnemidophorus lizards are common in the wash area and Calisaurus also. The Uta thalassica was the only lizard seen in a short walk above the wash through the rocky canyon at its head. A large group of small bats feeds about the porch and associated buildings of the people living here. Dr. Benson tried to net several that were hanging in a slack nearly at 7:30 PM yesterday but they escaped through large holes in the walls. The large Pitaya (dube?) is bearing fruit and several people were seen knocking off the fruiting bodies presumably for eating. The fruit is the size of a large apple and covered with dense yellow spines about an inch long. The meat is of a deep red color. The vegetation on the hills can hardly be called vegetation at all. All except the locally called "skunk-tree" which now is bearing yellow blossoms only, is entirely without leaves and appears to be dead. Nothing meets the eye on gazing at the hills except the yellow blossoms of the before-mentioned tree, the Pitaya, and the leafless brown trunks and branches of the arid-adapted bushes and trees. One exception I forgot to mention was a few