R.J. Raítt 1956 Journal January 26 Martínez Canyon, Santa Rosa Mts, Riverside Co., California and Mocking Birds in mesquite clumps and on wires between Indio and Valerie Jean's. Saw a Road Runner right next to a farmhouse just after leaving Valerie Jean's. On the dirt road up into the canyon we saw several Phainopeplas which became less abundant as we enter'd the canyon. Here at camp we have seen none. Near the mouth of the canyon we heard a Rock Wren calling; - We left camp about and headed up the road at about 1 PM through sandy washes, cacti,gaw, mescote, agave ocstillo, creosote bushes, etc. Saw an Antelope Ground squirrel, several Black-tailed Gnatcatchers (2 of them in camp), ! Say Phoebe, I Bewick Wren and heard a Shrike on the lower part of the road. After several miles the wash bottom began to show some different vegetation including several cottonwoods, some Baccharis, arrow weed and more Palo Verde and mesquite. Also we began to see quail tracks, and a small pool of stagnant water appeared in the bottom of the wash. About at this level we began to see junipers on the slopes above. At the 2,200 ft level in the main Martínez Canyon, about a mile above the first green vegetation and a half-mile after going through a stock fence gate we reach the end of the road at a small stone shack set against the south wall of the canyon. No one was in the shack and it was locked on the door was painted: "Dixon and Miller, P.O. Box 182, Thermal, Calit."