Hoene, H. 1980 29 May Left Berkeley ~7PM w/ two students on Zoology 165 field trip to Mojave Desert. Met John Cade, Paul Dicht and 9 other students at the W side of the Desert Tortoise Preserve. We arrived ~0130 and went right to sleep. Woke ~07:30 for breakfast w/ everyone and Ronald Marlow. 30 May Desert Tortoise Preser~5 mi N. California City, Kern Co., California Walked around from ~8:30-12:15. Nice morning, getting hot at the end. We saw many Cnemidophorus lignis (incl. at least 2 pairs in constant tandem, 7 feeding); Uta stansburiana; Gambelia wifigeni (~2 M, 2 females in rich red color); Galliaurus; Grotalus cerastes (not seen by me); and 3 Nasticophis flagellum. 2 of the M. flagellum were at least trying to copulate, and we took many photographs. Especially impressive was the way in which the M tapped the F's head down when she started to move off. I caught and measured them: F 1076+385mm, M 978+35mm. Ate lunch, shopped in Cal City, and moved on. Piozlah Crater, San Bernardino Co., California Arrived ~1630, walked over past Jeff Kaufmann's study area. Saw Uta, 2 Grotalus cerastes, Uta, and Cnemidophorus. One adult C. cerastes was barely visible at the mouth of a small burrow in the flat near the road. A small