Aug 24 3 mi SW Tres Piedras, 9000 ft, Rio Arriba Co, New Mexico. 2 turkey vultures over the far ridge circling. Another hairy woodpecker hit a pine tree within easy range. I raised the gun, I fired... a spent shell was in the gun! Ho Hum! I tried a few more shots at violet green Snailors with a 22 au without success. They were circling around a dead tree on top of a ridge close to camp. Tonight I set out 100 (count 'em) 100 mouse traps, and I'll catch some Peromyscus truei-nasutus or know the reason why! Aug 25 Picked up the traps. 10 Peromyscus maniculatus, 1 Peromyscus truei and 1 Microtus longicaudus. This last was taken in a small oak patch under Aspen. Bailey calls this a Canadian zone species which occasionally enters the Transition along cold mountain streams, associated with Canadian zone plants. What folithmen. A part of the specimen was young and somewhat damaged by ants, as were most of the specimens. I put up 4 of the P. maniculatus, the truei and the Microtus. I did not go out but shooting this morning. I went out about 10:30. The boys told me it had been a bad morning and it certainly was for me. I went up the high hill in back of camp to see if I could find martlets. I saw none, a couple Clark's Nutcrackers were flying around the hill top, landing in tree tops and calling. The only other bird life up there was a flock of