Kelsoe Valley, 4500 ft., Kern Co., Cal. Nov. 23, 1933. be a collecting spot for birds and mammals. Sage sparrows are continually at the spring. White crows, kinglets, junco, brown towhees, are less frequent. Chipmunks occasionally come down to the spring to drink. Our camp is auspiciously located being right on the line between the lower and upper s Moran zones. The canyon leads up to a peak of over 7000 feet; so the transition is close above us. The night we camped I set out a trap line down in the floor of the valley. I ran 26 mouse traps and 10 rat traps thru sage, rabbit brush and joshua. Five of my rat traps were set in pack rat nests among the joshua. This morning I ran my traps and made a good catch. In the sage and rabbit brush I caught four peromyscus morrisi. In the joshua I caught nine dipodomys mohavensis and one pack rat. I also caught one per- myscus true, but the beetles destroy- ed it. I shot one ammospemophil lus and one female cactus woodpecker. Later on, near noon, back here at camps I heard a canyon wren and a tilling up in the rocks. I went after him but