Semi N Castle Butte, Kern Co California March 25 Clouds were moving in from the north west. The study site I am working at is near a road that turns off N. from the Major-Rundleberg Road about 4 mi NE of the California City park. Site to golf course!! One mea, 100 mX City, 100 m, includes the roads and has been used once in the past as a motorcycle race course. The dominant plant is Creosote Bush, and these are smaller and sparser in this area. The ground cover of desert animals, so conspicuous elsewhere this year, is present here, but there is some vegetation. Separated by 200 m another wetland plot lies to the west of the first one. This plot has a lush covering of desert flowers, some desert and others, a purple Hydrophyllum, which I don't know. In both plots the soil only a few inches down is moist. Sheila Byrne and a friend of hers named Ron, helped me set out my traps. In each plot we set 10 strings of 10 16" Shermans. Trapping area about 100 x 115 m. We tried to set traps near bushes where possible, to shade them from the morning sun. The traps were set out closed, we will bait them with oatmeal and open them at dusk. Of the animals here I have seen only Harned Lark and Ravens. I also saw Brewer's Blackbirds, House Sparrows at California City Park, and Horned Brown-Headed Cowbird,