Ore 1932 Bodfish, 2600 ft., Kern Co., Calif. Dec. 22, 1932 the valley. I placed out 32 course traps in the Chrysothamnus and Juniperus that is growing on a rather gradual slope just southwest of town. Signs of cottontail and jackrabbit seen here. The trappers that I spoke to this a.m. told me that the brush rabbit were gone from this region now due to predators and hunting and the fact that a fire had swept away the undercover several years ago. In order to get to brush rabbit country I would have to hire horses and go 9 miles back in the mountains to a much higher altitude. Snow has blocked the dirt roads leading up higher. I scoured the sparsely brush covered ridges this p.m. without seeing a single footprint of a brush rabbit in the snow. Boyers shot a cottontail on a rather open hillside where there were a few Junipers growing. The thermometer registered 24° F after dusk this evening. Dec. 23, 1932 Traps contained 5 Peromyscus maniculatus and 4 Peromyscus truei this a.m. Saw a cottontail then in among a growth of Chrysothamnus this a.m. at 8:30. Several