R.J. Raitt 1956 8 Journal January 27 Martinez Canyon, Santa Rosa Mts., Riverside Co., Calif. so we climbed over a couple of divides to the west and came out right opposite our camp, arriving there at about 4:30 PM. On the way out down in the sparse desert scrub I shot at and missed a Black-throated Sparrow and we saw also a couple of Bewick-swarms. In the canyon in which we descended from the higher areas the upper sonoran shrub types began to dwindle at about 3600 ft but Pinyons persisted near the bottom as far down as we went (3400 ft.) and junipers persisted even farther. Scrub oak and Leucophyllum Berry dropped out out about 3600 ft. with the former extending lower probably than the latter. Jan 28 same location - Many mosquitos out last night - drove me into the truck again. Only a small amount of rain fell last night. All day to day there was broken cloudiness, more clouds in the morning, more sunshine in the afternoon. A down-canyon wind was blowing in the afternoon quite steadily, only slightly in the morning. After breakfast Dr. Miller walked down the main canyon, and I went up a small draw heading northwest from our camp. I heard House Finches and a Rock Wren in the upper part of the draw. All of the way up the draw over the divide to another one to the west I saw tracks and droppings of