General Notes 1938 Nov. 14 7 mi. W and 3 mi. S Placerville, 1400 ft., Eldorado Co., Calif. and skinned our meager catch. After lunch went down the latest road getting out of the car constantly looking for good dipper sites or signs. Joyan Benier very beautiful. Plenty of jack rabbit, quail, fox sparrow, and Spotted Towhee. Coyote and coon droppings copious in the brush. Country much drier and flatter S of Shingle. Returned to camp then headed towards Coloma again. Set out 40 traps as carefully as possible about regions which seemed to show signs of Dipers. Found lots of fresh microliths workings and set traps for several. Also made a few Reithro sets. I turned over logs on a N slope heavily set with rock outcroppings mostly serpentin. Found one Batrachiceps. Large supply of short red cockroach like insect beneath logs and stone firework and fern also present here. Went down a small creek 3 mi. N of of Shingles (Called Shingle Springs on maps) Creek runs dry very short distance from road, Picked up number of Rana. Will take them to Berkeley alive for more. Returned to Camp. Discovered at the store that the whole town is talking about us. I think we are job hunting at some of the local mines. Mouse story evidently too much for the locals to swallow. After supper went