Ovr 1932 Waltham Creek, 4 1/2 mile se. Priest Valley, 1850 ft., Fresno Co., Calif. Dec. 26, 1932 and Eriogonum. This evening Mr. Green's nephew Andrew A. Bond, a young man who showed quite an inter- est in natural history, came over to visit us. He said brush rabbits were very scarce at present. In former years he was able to go out and shoot 2 or 3 in 1/2 hr. easily in the evening. Tonight he went out and during a long walk he only saw 1 brush rabbit and 2 cottontail. Fire in previous years has tended to eliminate them in his opinion and two years ago a disease al- most wiped them out completely. The farmers hereabouts attempt to shoot them and poison them off as much as possible since they consider them as an economic loss. Dec. 27, 1932 My trap line contained 4 Dipodomys heermani, 2 Peromyscus maniculatus (ad.), and 8 Peromysca truei (6 jew.). Boyers took 3 adult Dipodomys heermani and 5 P. truei. In another smaller trap line he captured another D. heermani but this was not close to our main trap line. The situation wherein these Kangaroo Rats were located was on the top of a ridge which was run- nning northwest & southeast. While the surrounding portions of the ridge were fairly densely covered with chamise, there was only a scattering growth of this