June, July 1991 Journal Ruby Mountains and Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Elko & White Pine Counties, Nevada June 9 (cont.) improved road paralleling the Humboldt River. I checked the cottonwoods without success for sign of Lesser Goldfinca. I talked to two residents I encountered. Neither was familiar with this bird, though one recognized the picture of American Gold- finch. After a couple fruitless hours of looking for goldfinches, I returned to Highway 46 and continued south. Three miles south of Jiggs, the road diverges and I went east to cross the Ruby Mountains over Barrand Pass. The upper road was snow- free, and the slopes above the road far more snow free than upper Lemville Creek. At the T-intersection at the road end, I turned south to Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge. Water levels appeared quite low. I toured the refuge for a couple hours (15:45 - 18:00), stopping at the headquarters but finding it closed. I returned to Interstate 80 via the scenic road along the east side of the Rubies to Highway 229 to US Highway 93 to Wells, Nevada & the interstate. I wrote there after at a rest area east of Wendover, Utah, still heading east on I-80. The weather today was splendid. Temperatures ranged from ~45°F this am in Elko to 45-50° at roads and in the Ruby 80° at Mountain Scenic Area, to 65° at Te-Mate TR, and Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The wind came up around 18:00 in the scenic area, a brisk down-canyon wind of 15 mph, and continued for the remainder of this cloudless day, being more variable in direction in the lower elevations. No birds were seen today. Mammals seen were ground squirrel sp, muskrat and deer track.