R.J. Raith 1956 Journal Mojave River, 1400-1450 ft., Afton, San Bernardino Co., Calif. December 27, 1956 had seen them take refuge last night. The call was so close to that of the Calif. Vireil "assembly call" that I would not have been able to distinguished it from one. We managed to flush one up, but it flew away without my getting a shot, and I was unable to flush it from [illegible] any of the clumps of mesquite toward which it flew. In fact we heard and saw no more of any goral the rest of the time, in spite of much looking. We also saw a group of about 6 Desert Sparrows feeding on the ground near a mesquite. Several Phainopeplas were seen at or near the tops of mesquites giving high-pitched squaks and always flushing at long distances from me. At least twelve Rock Wrens were seen in the atriplex and on the ground foraging. Just before we left camp a Cactus Wren flew through the camp area alighting in screw bean bushes. In a low spot near the railroad I collected a Bewick Wren out of an isolated clump of thickly growing tall (3'-5') cone-like grass. We returned to camp at about 10 AM and then headed downstream on the north side of the river to a point just above our camp of last spring. Then we crossed the stream and walked down the road to its end, after which we returned to camp by way of the road. We saw another