R.J. Rath 1956 3 Journal January 26 Martinez Canyon, Santa Rosa Mts, Riverside Co., Calif. A few yards down from the cabin are evidences of a spring - including maidenhair ferns - and tanks and pipes to catch the water. As we approached this spring - at which there was no water - several quail flushed away flying downstream. A call revealed them to be Gambel Quail. We retrieved our guns and went after them. They flushed up right at my feet and startled me into reaction. I got off a load of 8's but missed. Dr. Miller took a shot but missed also. We followed them on downstream for a ways but saw only one and got no more shots. There were about 7 in the covey. Continuing up the wash conditions became drier again in the bottom but more junipers appeared on the sides of the canyon. We passed several clumps of mesquite which appeared to contain no birds. At the 2,500 ft. level the canyon divides with a branch coming in from north and south. A trail (presumably going over the crest of the Santa Rosas to the Palms-to-Pines Hwy) angles up the north face of the south branch to the top of the divide. As we started up the trail (at about 4 PM) we saw, about 50 yds up on the top of the divide, a mountain sheep with a fine head. He stopped and looked at us for several seconds and we had a good look at him before he disappeared over the divide. Before we could resume our climb up the trail we heard and then saw a cactus woodpecker up near the top of the south rim of the canyon. He was on an ocotillo branch. Dr. Miller went up after it,