Gilmore 1926. 90 mi. S. of Mexicali, on the E. side of the Colorado River Plains, Lower Calif. Utah/Mex. March 21, 1926. Left Mexicali at 9:00 A.M. in company with Mr. [illegible] Huey and Mrs. Comfield. The first 30 miles was thru irrigated cotton and alfalfa fields. The next 10 miles was thru thick vegetation, mesquite, arrowweed willows etc. Then we broke out & gradually upon the Plains of the Colorado River (Ramos de Rio Colorado), a broad, seemingly endless expanse of bare soil made sticky and rough by recent rains. We finally camped on the edge of this desert at about 5:00 P.M. after covering 407 92 miles in 8 hours. While coming from the bushy area to the bare desert plains we experienced a short severe rainstorm, sso characteristic of desert regions. For about a half an hour it rained in force torrents and literally flooded the road. All bird and animal life ceased when we got on the desert. Before the dust, however, we saw numerous dove, shrub owls, vultures, and mocking birds. We saw one guail in the brush.