F. Hoffmeister 1939 Itinerary June 29 Crooked R., 3400 ft, at mouth of Bear Cr., Crook Co., Oregon State registration of the car. Between camp 11 mi. NE Weed and the Calif.-Oregon state line I counted 19 rabbits killed on the highway, and 2 squirrels. Between Mackel and Dorris, California, I counted 8 Black-killed Magpies. Along the highway just north of the state line in the region of the lower Klamath Lake, Bank Swallows were present in the same pile of roadway dirt as was noted by a museum party a year ago along this route. In the Klamath Lakes region, Citellus heldingi oregonus, "Callospermophilus", Eutamias were abundant mammals and White Pelicans, Gulls, Swainson Hawks, Western Grebe, Coos, Cormorants, Red-winged and Brewer Blackbirds were abundant birds with Night Herons, Avocet, Marsh Hawk, BlackTern, and Eared Grebe in lesser numbers. At Lapine, Oregon, a Citellus heldingi was apparently stuck in the melted asphalt of the roadway by its hind quarters, for it was vigorously trying with its front legs to move off the roadway with no success. About 1/2 mi. N Lapine (by Highway) there was a dead porcupine along the roadway. We continued on U.S. Highway 97 to Redmond, and turned right here to Prineville. Inquired here as to the shortest road and as to its condition to a region "on the Crooked River, 20 mi. southeast of Prineville." A service station attendant suggested