Mayhew 1957 Journal 56. May 30 Univ. Calif. campus, Riverside, Riverside Co., Calif. While checking on the Bewick Wrens' nest in the Fig rack today, I looked in all the nests, 33 of them contained some sort of material that had been brought in by birds - string, twigs, etc. Only the one containing the young Bewick Wrens contained either eggs or young now, but one brood of House Finches hatched earlier in the season. 1958 Feb. 4-6 Colorado Desert Trip, Riverside & Imperial Cos. This morning at 10 A.M. Dan Goodcase and I left UCR campus in the university jeep in a heavy rainstorm. We were looking for areas that contain heavy growths of mistletoe, since plainspeas are nearly always found in such areas in the desert. We traveled to Indio, South through Mecca (after being unable to pass through the Mecca Hills to Shaw's Summit) to Niland. Rain was falling intermittently there and further south, so we returned to Indio and headed for Blythe. We reached Desert Center about dark, so got something to eat there, then found a campsite 9 miles north of Desert Center on the road to Rice. By this time the