Salt 1950 Journal May 28 Boca Spring, 6000 ft., Nevada Co., Calif. I sprang the trap at him but he got away--. That concluded the drinking bug that species for the day--. Most of the activity about the spring petered out about 11:00 AM with a slight rise again about 4 P.M. Sceloporus graciosa in rocks about spring--. Saw first Sciurus douglasii today + heard a few calls from others--. Very reduced from numbers here last fall. Eutamias all over the place--. One lives in the willows about spring--. Also a golden-mantled ground squirrel come in to the spring to drink--. There is a toad, (Bufo boreas ?) which I have neither caught nor identified living in the pool--. Shot at bats after supper with the same deadly effect as last night--. May 29 Up early, broke came took off for Reno--. Saw a few gulls + a loon on Boca Reservoir--. Jook Dixon out to titmous locality 12 mi S. Reno on Virginia City road--. Went into Reno for supplies picked Dixon up at noon + ate lunch by an irrigation ditch--. Heard some Bullock Orioles + House Finches there, drove to Mono Lake