Furnace Creek Ranch, 118 ft. below sea level, Death Valley, Dug to, Calif. Feb. 14. Got permission to allow me to collect in the Monument. The whole procedure took about two days. However, Mr. Godwin informed me that privately owned land was not under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service, and that if I could obtain permission from the Superintendent of the Furnace Creek Ranch to hunt on their property, I could so without a permit. The Superintendent of the Ranch is Mr. C.O. Scholl, whose office is at the Furnace Creek Inn. Mr. Scholl was very obliging, but wanted to make sure that Mr. Godwin said it was OK for me to collect before he would give me permission to do so on ranch land. When I assured him it was OK with Godwin, he gave me carte blanche to collect on the ranch, and other property owned by the ranch. He also gave me a note to the ranch foreman, Mr. Murray Miller. I looked this gentleman up; I found him very affable. Since 90% of the birds to be seen are on his ranch, this is definitely the best place to work. The Ranch Monument Naturalist is Mr. E. J. Floyd Keller. He is new here, having been transferred from Kaibab Forest, Arizona about two weeks ago. He knows very little about the monument or its natural history,