Sculian 1949 Sceloporus occidentalis -1- Aug 21 French Camp 3,100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. 2 individuals collected on a dry rocky, burned over slope S of camp. Ground is covered with grass in spots. , some very dwarf poison oak, but mostly serpentine fragments. Both were collected with a .38 shot. Later in the morning I saw several other larger blue-bellies, all among dead branches in the sun among the shrubby Tan Oak forest or on more exposed slopes. Aug 24 same locality - 1 stubby tailed individual collected (by .38 shot) on a dry grassy- bracken fern slope on the break of the ridge just below the Black Oak Area (see map journal p.148). It was in full moon time sun on a slope facing 8° west of south. The temperature on bare ground at this place is 108°F. the surface layers of soil has a temperature reading of 115°F. Aug 27 3 1/2 mi. N Willow Creek, 2200 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif.- 1 shot in the track and litters about the base of a ceanothus manzanita bush, on the south slope of Waterman Ridge, at about 2200 feet. It is still quite warm on this slope but the sun is off of it (4:15 pm. As the sun is still on where this animal was taken but is partly obscured by a cloud.