Diary 11 mi. W and 7 mi. S Mitchell, 4850 ft., Wheeler Co., Oregon stream. The valley there is broad June 14 contd. with abundant thickets of willows. The stream flows rather slowly and the ground is marshy. About # 1 mile below the cross road at the mouth of our valley system there is a large swamp. Here there are Brewer blackbirds and Redwing blackbirds. No traces of microtus however. In the willows saw Spotted sandpipers, Yellow warblers, Audubon warblers, Chipping sparrows, and several birds I did not know. At the Crossroad proper there are two small buttes of rock very much like the outcroppings so common in the Okanagan. I here saw capacious Marmot droppings there. A short distance west beneath a large yellow pine are great masses of deer droppings scattered over quite an area. Must have been quite a herd there. Coming home sighted some sceloporus caught one, they are extremely rare. Met two herders down in the valley they were catching trout; the stream is well supplied. I here are also mud bottom fish of some sort which I intend to catch tomorrow. Found five Beaver dams. Set out 50 traps in the willows 150 yds from camp found 2 Beaver dams here also. Heard a trap snap and caught a shrew alive by the teeth. Placed it in a jar.