Journal March 17 Fallon, Nevada to Baker, Nevada only agreed she wouldn't call the sheriff. If someone else did then she may well have been on their side. Somehow the situation struck me as precarious. Who wants to spend the night in jail in Eureka?? So I went to see the sheriff. This required waiting until he returned from lunch. He was very sympathetic & wanted to help but was unsure what kind of trouble might arise if he gave me permission & then some local citizen called him in protest. I suggested he come along with me. He rounded up in the sheriff's car a deputy & the deputy drove me back to where I'd seen the birds. By now it was 2 PM, the Juncos had increased, the House Sparrows decreased & the Rosy Finches were gone! Meanwhile a Nevada Fish & Game man came by & stopped to see why I & the deputy were out there with a gun. Things now looked so official that no citizen would be apt to squawk but there were no birds. We then drove just out of town on a side road to some barns owned by the same man. Here I found a flock of 250-300 Rosy Finches! I collected 26. Six were littoralis, one was atrata (the only one