D. Strong 1925 (Copy) /83 desert -- I would like to have one more day for I think we could easily have gotten a ram. Hard climb out -- stopped at Santa Rosa and picked up our cache, then dropped over the western rim of the mountains to San Tomas, a beautiful long meadow with a nice willow fringed stream. The change today was remarkable -- from utter desert lower Sonoran, thru upper Sonoran, Transi- tion (Santa Rosa) and down into lower transition and upper Sonoran at San Tomas. Saw a coyote with the stock here on the flat. Collected all I could put up, in the willows, in about an hour. Very cold today, pinon, grease wood, willows -- and many other shrubs character- ize the flora. Good feed here. Passed a miserably cold night, damp and foggy. San Tomas, June 4, 1925. R. t. hawk V. G. Swallow Vulture Bluebird Raven Cassin Kingbird Brewer blackbird Gray flycatcher Flat headed Jay West flycatcher Mt. Quail (not certain) flycatcher Valley Quail (2 specs. secured) Calif. Woodpecker B. h. Grosbeak R. s. flicker Oriole Hairy woodpecker Cassin Purple finch Purple Martin (about doz.) Townsend Warbler Eave Swallow Poorwill