K Dixon 1952 Journal Jan. 26 En route Berkeley, Calif. to Atascosa Co., Texas. A.H.Miller and I left Berkeley about 8:00 a.m., after a delay in obtaining a jack which I had forgotten to provide. Cloudy; streets wet but no rain. We proceeded via Walnut Creek and Dublin to Tracy and Modesto. Water high after recent heavy rains but roads entirely passable. We drove down Hwy 99 to Bakers- field, (lunch at Fresno), over Tehachapi Pass (snow never as low as elevation of road) to Mojave. WEATHER CLEAR beyond this point. We proceeded to Barstow, reaching there about before 6:00 p.m. We pushed across the desert to Needles and camped in a dry wash 20 miles or so farther south. Jan 27. We started at dawn, noting few birds in recent brush flats or ironwood-smoke tree grown washes. Breakfast at Parker Jet, Calif., then E to Elip and across the Colorado River to Parker. From there we drove via Hope & Weedbaking to Phoenix (12:30). On to Mesa, south to Casa Grande and E via Picacho. Near Marana on Hwy 80, a flock of Brewer Blackbirds with at least 3 ?? plumage yellow-headed Blackbirds in rookery beside railway. Other Brewers near plowed fields. Only one flock of Calamarigis. We drove via Tucson and Tucson, reaching Willcox after dark. After dinner we continued through borderby New Mexico and Deming, stopping for the night some 20 miles beyond Deming.