J. Rodgers - 1942 Eumeces skiltonianus Nov. 27, 1942 Musert Zool., Univ. Calif., Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. Yesterday Nov. 26, Harvey Fisher, Viola Memmler, Freddie Fisher (age 4), my boys Ronnie (age?) and Teddy (ages 5), and I looked for skinks on the west-facing slope of San Pablo Ridge, 1700 ft., 400 yds NNW. Bald Peak, Contra Costa Co., Calif. Time spent collecting was equivalent to 4 1/2 man hours. This is the same place that I collected in on Nov. 22 and Nov #. We collected 11 skinks. They were all within 10" of the surface. Most of them were cold enough that they did not start to run when first exposed; some of them did, but not fast. All of them warmed up as soon as they were held in our hands for a minute or so and became quite lively. None of them came from under rocks that had been moved before. Most of them were dug out of the porous mixture of light soil and rocks, 3 to 8 inches under the surface. Five were found in one place and three in another where Harvey and I worked together breaking down the bank we had made with our picks. In both places, we started digging the rocks out of an extra steep place in the brush hillside, thus forming a bank that could be broken down easily, working up the hill. The skinks were found under the surface in places where no rocks (a very few of them small) projected above the surface. He [illegible] at high (1000) altitude. The weather was clear, bright and slightly crisp, with a few clouds moving across the blue sky & low fog over the delta region.