wife Aug 29, 1830 This was a thundershowers yesterday & yesternoon. Thinking it might bring some amphibia out, we went out after dark with the lanterns and walked up the canyon, but found nothing. Another thundershower started while we were out, driving us back to camp. When this shower was over, we again went out and this time had more luck. Walking along the road which runs by Pita Blanca Camp, we collected Bufo punctatus (one adult, several juveniles), Leaphagus hemmardi (2 or 3 adults, several juveniles), Microhylla o. mazzullensis (one adult), Hyla arenicolor (one sub-adult) and Rana pipiens. The Leaphagus resemble the Bufo in the possession of many red-tipped warts. In life, the Microhylla was brown dorsally with a few black spots arranged in no definite pattern. This morning we drove to Syracuse Canyon and Yantis Spring (which waters the canyon, in part), about seven miles from Pena Blanca on the Ruby road. The first thing which you notice about Syracuse Canyon so that there