Err 1932 1/2 mi. e Meramonts, 3500 ft., Fresno Co., Calif. Dec. 19, 1932 Twigs of manganita and oak overhead. This space was about 5 feet in diameter. I shot the animal and secured it. No more seen during the morning. At 11:25 a.m. I walked up a small box canyon back of camp to take two habitat pictures of brush rabbits and saw one of the rabbits drop into a small clearing 10 feet in diameter. It stopped about 2 feet from the edge of the brush and I shot it. The situation was on a steep hillside where there were numerous small scattered clumps of C. cumulus. Boyer saw a gray squirrel this a.m. when we were farther down the road. This p.m. we went down to this locality where I secured the first brush rabbit this a.m. I left him to place out some traps along the creek bottom and grassy open hillside while I went rabbit hunting. I did not succeed in seeing a single brush rabbit. Saw signs of cottontail and jack rabbit along the edge of the creek adjacent to an open meadow. Placed out 12 mouse traps and 3 rat traps at dusk as I was returning. The former were plac- ed by rocks on the open hillside and along the edge of moderately small clumps of brush. Two of the rat traps were placed by a rat nest beneath some large boulders. The third was placed by a wood rat pile that was