Mayhew 1959 Journal 107. Nov. 8 Lovejoy Butte area, Los Angeles Co., Calif. this winter. We left the Phelan area at about 1530 without having seen a lizard all day. We reached UCR at 1630 after a trip of 218 miles. Nov. 9 Palm Springs, Riverside Co., Calif. I left UCR at 0820 to try to collect the monthly sample of Uma inornata. I reached our former collecting site on Vista Chino at 0923. I walked over a fair amount of terrain without seeing any lizards or any tracks. One adult Callisaurus draconoides was seen about 0930, but it was entirely too spooksy to be captured. It had rained in this region 8 days earlier & no wind storms had blown in the meantime, so numerous tracks should have been visible if any animals had been active since the rain. However, very few tracks could be found. There were some insect & some mammal tracks, but almost no lizard tracks. The weather was clear & calm. At 0930 the air temp.(30") was 26.8C. I feel that if lizards are going to be active in that area any time this winter, today would have been one of those days. As I was driving away from the area I saw an adult Uma sunning itself on top of an accretion dune at the