Kaye-1933 26 9 mi. S, 6 mi. W. Chico, 100 ft., Butte Co., Calig. Sept. 27, 1933. Today has been about the most eventful day we've had. However, we didn't have much luck with our traps. I got nothing in my steel traps and got only 6 mice - 3 microtus, 2 permycus, and one neithrodontmys, none of them were worth saving. In most cases some- thing had eaten enough of the mice to spoil them. I saw a small "centipede" like creature fall off of one of the mice when I picked it up - but this "thing" got away too fast for me to be able to ascertain what it was. I don't believe that shrews had been working on them - though the habitat is good for shrew, and though my shrew sets produced nothing. Also this morning I saw a flock of cormorants (farallate) flying overhead. This afternoon when we went out again, we found the main body of Eddy Lake and looked it over for trapping possibilities. The sides were perpendicular, and afforded no chance to trap at the edge of the lake. We did raise up nearly 50 wood ducks. In the oaks near the lake we saw six Lewis woodpeckers. After dinner tonight we took two of the