Paul R Benedictis 1960 Nov 25 Chas. H. Tilden Regional Park, Contra Costa Co., Calif - Today about noon Gene Huppman, Elvey Combs, Ilmar Larsi, and myself went out to see what had been brought out by the recent storm. Mr. Huppman let us off by our "secret skink spot" at the south end of Tilden Park. At the spot where we got a Crotalus in February, I got an Aneides and Gene + Ilmar got 1 Batrachoseps, and saw two or three more. Gene found two Peromyscus under a stone, but we couldn't catch them. From here we went down the hill onto the East Bay Municipal Utilities District watershed land. Although there was nothing seen on the way down, at the bottom of the creek Elvey caught a beautiful adult Eumeces under a board. He also got 2 more Aneides under rocks and logs under some Eucalyptuses. Along the open, heavily grazed pasture on the hills we looked under rocks. I found a Taricha [Aneides] and more Batrachoseps, and Elvey got a black widow. He got 2 tarantulas earlier. In an outcropping we slide the top half of a large rock off the bottom and got 2 Sceloporus and a juv. Gekko geko. After this we saw only a few more salamanders. When we got to below Grizeley Stables, it finally started to really rain. We all quickly got under some laurel trees and ate lunch. Since it