R.J. Raiff 1956 Journal Jarbidge area, Elko Co. Nevada June 5 Got up at 5 to a very cold morning after a very cold night. There was frost on the ground and on the truck's windows. Dr. Miller checked a therm- ometer at about 5:30 and it was -20 C. Today we took the truck down the canyon for several miles up the east wall of the canyon and crossed over several miles + of quite flat sagebrush and grass covered plateau heading roughly 16 S 5 W till we reached the meadows of Cow Creek where we stopped to hunt birds from about 8 AM until 10 AM. The locality designation here was determined to be 2 1/2 mi. W Jarbidge, 7500+ ft. . We drove back the same route and stopped near the canyon rim # in the sagebrush to collect Meadowlarks and Horned Larks and then just below the rim in a clump of Amelanchier, both of which points have been designated 4 mi. N Jarbidge, 6700+ ft. The road we took leads, I think, to Mountain City. We arrived back in camp close to noon and spent the afternoon skinning. On the way down the river in the morning we saw nothing much. Nor did the steep climb up the rocky west canyon wall produce anything until we got near to the top in the clump of dense Amelanchier where we saw a Blue Grouse on the road. Before we could get into action it flew into the brush. As soon as we reached the top of the