5. Journal Mar.31 Colorado River, opp. Ft. Mohave, 500 ft., Clark Co., Nevada 4 P.M. till well after dark. A few Morning Doves have flown past about dusk every day here. No hawks at dusk, but some heard late. Red shot a Chordeiles antipannis just at dusk, only one seen. Saw a Sparrow Hawk in the morning, and a Turkey Vulture. The usual Gulls and Cormorants along the river, and a Great Blue Heron again early this morning. Apr.1 Very cloudy and cold this morning. Saw 3 Coots and 2 Eared Grebes in the river, early. Right after breakfast we broke camp, afraid of what the rain might do to the road. Just before we left I shot a mulleting Archilox Wabber, and got a Violet-green Swallow out of the air with my pistol. Had 2 Peromyscus boylei in the traps around camp. Left this camp about 7:30 A.M., and moved inland to the edge of the desert. This new locality we called Snyder Ranch, 500 ft., 1/2 mi. W Colorado River, Clark Co., Nev. Hunted up in the desert a while, then swung back into the mesquite brush at the edge of the flood plain. Very little in the desert; saw a Myiarchus, and shot a Savannah Sparrow. In dense Arrow-weed just at the edge of the desert saw a pair of Grissal Thrashers and three Scrub Jays. Shot one of the Jays. These were all in mesquite sticking above the Arrow-weed. Saw several Starbel Thrail in mesquite. Some Ruby-