wife Mar. 22, 1951 5 mi. N and 1 mi. W of Calistoga, Snooma Co., Calif. The locality stated above is airline, not road distance. This is Robert Louis Stephenson's home, an abandoned and di- sagitated structure on Mount St. Helena. The only salamanders found here were 23 Batrachoseps and a single young Ensatina eschscholtzii. The area was quite cold, snow & ice about on the ground. The temperature beneath a board which sheltered several Batrachoseps was 3.6°C 0.5 mi. W Skagg's Spring, Snooma Co. The we collected Anides flavipunctatus, Onides longulus, Triturus simularis, Scolopoma occidentalis, Onomeres stil- tionanus, and Diadophis pinalisi. The surrounding hillsides are covered with a mixture of live and deciduous oaks, madrone, and manzanita. There were no cottonwoods. The slope on which we collected had been burned over within the past few years. Collecting beneath burned fence stakes.