headed into their pallets. There were in the Tummlucks covered by acacia or Thorn scrub on the north side of the basically west-east running hummock. The tortoises were all headed into their pallets. There were many unoccupied pallets and all of the tortoise we saw had a good 1/3 - 1/5 of the rear part of the shell hanging over of the pallet. Later checked an area of trash along Texas Hwy 4 east of Brownsville and found nothing. After that checked along an irrigation canal just south of Hwy 4 and parallel to it and saw no hogs except for about 7-8 Rana frogs, some of which were as large as Green Frogs. Got none of rare, however, as they were very wary. Drove back into Brownsville and ate dinner at Bmanza where chicken fried steaks were on sale at $1.00 a shot. After dinner drove west of town and pulled off in a grove of trees where a house had once been. The night was passed very pleasantly save for the slight interruptions and inconvenience cased by two different Sheriffs' patrols asking what we were doing; a swarm of the most fierce mosquitoes I have ever seen; a vivid storm of 30 minute duration that approached hurricane