Hesse, H. 1990 August 20 picked up Diane Wagner (former UCB undergrad, Continued) now PhD student at Princeton) at SWRS and drove to Douglas for dinner at the Golden Hotel. Spectacular sunset over purple-striped mountains to the east, ahead of lush green plains of San Bernardino Valley. Coming back we saw a Vulpes macrotis, several Cottas, and a Rhinocyllus coniger. August 21 Big Hatchet Mountains, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico Barney Torbellin and I left Portal at 07/0 h and arrived here ~ 0905 h. We drove through Arivaca to Hachita, then south on Hwy 81 for 15.3 mi; we turned left on a dirt road just south of Hatchet Gap (Little Hatchet Mtns. In the right), drove 0.2 mi, turned left through a corral and chose 4.6 mi ~ east through a valley on the north side of the Big Hatchet - a lush creosote scrub-habitat w/ lots of grass. At 0840 h, ~ 1/2 way down that road, we caught a ♂ Cottus viridis flattened (basking?) in the dirt road - it put on a terrific show: striking, whirly S-coil, nodding, elevated & down-litted head, then switched to a compact coil w/ head tucked down in it. Passed a road to a windmill on the right and took the next right - a two-track that word 2.5 mi up to the mouth of a steep canyon that ends before enormous sheer cliffs. We searched opposite side of the canyon walls, especially talus slides, for almost two hours but saw only