R.K. Selander, 1953 Baja California Feb. 1 Left San Francisco at 11:15 A.M. alone in my Ford truck. Drove south on U.S. Highway #101 to Paso Robles; thence east along Highway 466 to Wasco and south thru Bakersfield (Highway 99) through Los Angeles to Fullerton, where I parked car in an orange grove just off the highway. Retired at 11:00 P.M. Feb. 2 Up at 6:30. Continued along 101 toward San Diego. Stopped at La Jolla and talked with Kenneth Norris at Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Stopped at the San Diego Museum of Natural History and talked a few minutes with Lawrence Huey. He mentioned having "many cactus wrens" in the collection. - After leaving San Diego I hurried south to Tijuana, arriving there at 11:50 P.M., just 10 minutes before the border closed (according to Huey). No cactus areas around San Diego that would support cactus wrens. However, according to a label in the San Diego Museum, cactus wrens were formerly common around San Diego and even in Balboa Park. Area around San Diego is farmed extensively; native vegetation gone. - At the Mexican border I passed through without inspection, being ordered to buy a tourist's card in Ensenada.