Murray 1949 Journal Aug 31 3 mi N Willow Creek, 700ft, Humboldt Co, Calif Had alders and maples, with fir up the hillside. Shaded except from the north. Spread the rest of the traps along the road in moist grass of the bank, or where some water was draining through and had Equisetum and green grass. Sept 1 Same location Caught 6 Tecomycus (saved 3), 1 Sonex trowbridgii. In the afternoon hunted reptiles along the road going toward Willow Creek. Found a Cerrhonotus coeruleus in the road where it was shaded by maples and tan oak along the side - still north facing slope. As I rounded the bend it became a south- west facing slope, very dry and sun beaten. Going down the hill there were mainly black oaks, with madrone and some Douglas firs mixed in. Dry leaf litter with a little parched poison oak. Part way down found a Citellus bleechi, surprisingly unafraid, which ran up within a few feet of me. Saw 4 shinks in all, 2 while returning. Two were small blue-tails. Reached the flat ground at the bottom of (left) the hill and found a Deadophis annulatis in the road where it was quite shady from