Oct 1932 Waltham Creek, 4 1/2 mi. se Priest Valley, 1850 ft, Fresno Co., Calif. Dec. 26, 1932 approximately 20 yards wide and 100 yards long. I placed out 40 traps along an area about 290 yards long, not in a straight line but curving around a hill ~~~~..Traps that I placed out were not placed out at def- ite intervals, but at what seemed to be the choicest and most advantageous points. No more than two traps were placed in the im- mediate vicinity of what seemed to be one series of holes. Traps placed in shallow furrow dug with foot along one of the rat trails or nearby (never, however, closer than 5 feet from a hole). As I was coming down the ridge at dusk (6:30) a cottontail ran quite noisely from a clump of Adenostoma and Lureus dumosa out into the open, 25 yds. up a small hill away from any brush and then down the other side. About 30 yards down the other there was some more chamise grow- ing but whether the animal ran into this or into a hole in the open I do not know. The running of the cottontail from brush into the open when scared seemed peculiar to me. Boyers said that he saw a jackrabbit this evening in the Dipodurus inhabited area. The animal ran from the semi-open region to the chamise