  I present a scenario for the production of low mass, degenerate dwarfs of
mass $>0.1 M_{\odot}$ via the mechanism of Lenzuni, Chernoff & Salpeter (1992).
Such objects meet the mass limit requirements for halo dark matter from
microlensing surveys while circumventing the chemical evolution constraints on
normal white dwarf stars. I describe methods to observationally constrain this
scenario and suggest that such objects may originate in small clusters formed
from the thermal instability of shocked, heated gas in dark matter haloes, such
as suggested by Fall & Rees (1985) for globular clusters.
