R.K.Selander, 1953 Feb. 2 at a point 4 miles west of San Vicente at 7:00 P.M. The vegetation is low [illegible]. It is not very cold tonight, the temperature at 8:45 p.m. reading 12°C. Crane flies and moths coming to the lamp. Can hear crickets. Weather entirely fine; sky cloudless. Pocket gopher diggings all over the place where I am camped. I will set several traps for them. "No fresh digging so no traps set. At 12:30 A.M. two Mexican boys came up to the truck wanting gas for their car. I sold them 5 gallons for 10 pesos. Feb. 3 Up at 6:30 and continued on south. At a place called Arroyo Seco the pavement ends. The road is now gravel or dirt and rather "wash-board" like in spots. About 20 miles southeast of Arroyo Seco there is a sign ["San Telmo"] pointing eastward. Followed this ± 8 miles to the town of San Telmo. Not much cactus in this area. The lowlands are farmed and the hills are covered with desert scrub for the most part. However, around the town itself there are patches of tina cactus (opunta) of two types. One, the larger, is pale green and the other is smaller and darker green. Found two nests of cactus wren in the tina cactus at San Telmo. Other birds noted include thrasher (large, brown species), housefinch, English sparrow, marsh hawk "hawking" over cactus slope); calif. quail (common); brown towhee, and turkey vulture.