204 1/2 mile east Muramute, 3500 ft, Fresno Co, Calif. Oct 1932 Dec. 17, 1932 Last night we had quite a heavy rain although the thermometer only registered 33° F. when we retired. This morning I caught 1 Peromyscus californicus beneath some I. Side oak along the edge of the canyon bottom and 4 Peromyscus boyleyii in my traps. I had placed out 6 snare along rabbit trail last night and one had evidently caught a brush rabbit because there was some hair on the snow and tracks of a struggle. The animal apparently had escaped. I placed out 6 more snares. I met a trapper placing out some sets on the ridge. He told me he caught two tobcats around here last week. He had a large dead fall constructed and baited with a live chicken for mount- ain lion, saying he had seen tracks of one about here lately. Like the other resident he told me that brush rabbits were scarce (as regards seeing them). I saw a flock of brush tits foraging in the madrone and black oak out in the brushy area but was unable to procure any. Several juncos seen. While stalking rabbits 3