J. Groth 1980 journal 232. and pinyon pine forest for about 10 miles, then thinned to grassy desert as northward brought lower elevations. I turned off of Highway 64 on forest roads to the east side of the highway (south of Red Lake, Arizona). I drove here through some pine savanna habitat, saw an antelope, a herd of elk, a herd of deer. There were few old dried cones on the ponderosa pine, with a moderate crop of 1" cone buds fanning on the trees. The crossbills (type?) should come to breed in this area in late summer. I camped along a road underneath a high electrical and/or telephone wire system, as follows: [sketch] April 18 No crossbills were encountered at this site. I saw pine siskins, chickadees (mountain?), stellers jays, robins, bluebirds, meadowlark (quail?) I collected a pine siskin out of a flock. It was a cold night, and would be a sunny warm day. I left the site by about 10:00 am and drove west on interstate to Flagstaff,