aye-1933 49 S. side Thompson Canyon, 3900 ft., Walker Basin, Kern Co., Calif. Oct. 13, '33. I got 2 rock mice and 1 pennyscus. From my pack rat traps along Basin Creek I got 1 pack rat. From a trap which I had left set in a tree from which I had already caught a male pack rat, I caught a female pack rat. From 4 traps which I has set on a rocky, steep cliff overlooking Basin Creek I caught a mouse which we can't identify for sure. (See No."194" on previous page for measurements.) It looks something like a truei, yet the ears are far too small. The rabbit which I shot last night has proved to be a problem. It seems to me to look more like a brush rabbit than a cottontail. Ray says it may be a young cottontail. Perhaps, but it acts more like a brush rabbit. Maybe I should have said "acted." I found it in heavy brush along basin creek where there was no water. It was quiet, and just hopped a little further in when I came along. Cottontails gen- ually come out of the brushy bottoms in evening. Also when flushed out they run like "--". This rabbit I shot exhibited none of the actions of