Brede 1934 July 4 continued but before it had gone a yard it recovered and flew to another tree. A second shot sent it volplaning across to irrigation ditches on toward the hillside. By the time I had managed to cross the streams I could not find any trace of the bird. I did find among the rocks of the hillside a whiptailed lizard, (Chenidophorus tessellatus). In the evening I crossed the railroad tracks and set traps at intervals from the base to the top of the gravel hill opposite camp. There are many boulders and all sizes of rock and soil very little plant life. Principal plants: at the base - near irrigation canal willows - then abruptly desert-like flora chiefly Atroples and Chryssothemnus. I saw definite signs of wood rat and kangaroo rat workings. July 5 Collected traps set out last night. At the base of the hill I found near the willows I found a Peromyscus crinitus and another of the same sort way up the hill. A short distance up