T. Rodgers -- 1942 203A Itinerary Sacramento Valley trip, Mar. 6, 7, 8, 9. (Written Mar. 10, in Berkeley) Walter Dalquest, Sherburne Cook, Jr., and I left Berkeley at 5:30 a.m., in the Reo truck belong- ing to MVZ. We picked up Phillip Merritt at his home in Lafayette. At Dry Creek, 6 mi. N Lodi, we collected all our specimens under planks, boards, chunks of wood and large timbers along the road that leads into a farm on the west side of highway 99 and the north side of Dry Creek (not now dry). The ground under the objects was porous and damp -- obviously had not been flooded. The land is at least 12 feet above the bottom of the creek. At Arno, we collected along the R.R. track from the R.R. sign "Arno," to about 1/2 mi. S. We rolled over granite boulders that were placed along the fill on which the R.R. was built. The country was flooded on both sides of the tracks and conditions under all except a few of the highest rocks were certainly indicative of recent flooding. No skinks were found; only Sceloporus and one Coluber constrictor. Most of the specimens taken at the place called "1 mi. W Michigan Bar" were taken on the hillside on the north side of the Cosumnes River, just across a bridge from a place called Bridge House. Some were taken about 1/2 mile west of there on both sides of the road. "10 mi. WSW Plymouth" specimens were taken on a south-facing hillside north of the road (highway 16). As we traveled NE from Wheatland, we found rocks to turn over but did not find skinks until we