Paul DeBenedetti 1961 Jan 4 memories and recollections - Mexican trip (Bush-Tite 21-8-61) (Dec 17) were little gray birds with a lighter belly and responded very well to the imitation of their call, made by sucking air between the inside of the upper lip and the lower teeth. I also went after a "brown shrike." The spot where Ted caught us was at a bridge on the high near some tremendous duns, probably 20 mi W of Sonoyta. I found lots of clivine and a little cacaco pyrite in a stream bed here. I kicked over a piece of tin and a Vta van off. From here on I rode in back. We got to Sonoyta after sundown, and there was not even a chance to see my special mountain range. There were two terrible wrecks on highway 2 past Sonoyta, but the Altar Valley (I still am not sure if we were really here or not) I got out of the truck still half asleep, and spent a lot of time staggering around the vehicles. Elvey built a fire (he also did so at night in the Grand Desert). Teddy said he missed a Masticophis flagellum in a large rock outcropping here. (Dec 18) We woke up in the morning to be greeted by a flock of perhaps 100 black cultures and a few Audubon's caracaras flying over a dead house. Rich took a shot into the cloud and didn't get a thing. We stopped just outside of (north of) Ciudad Obregon in a bushy area. Teddy has gone into town to get bread. There is a large, filthy watered area here, and we all