Orr 1932 Waltham Creek, 4 1/2 mi. sc Priest Valley, 1850 ft., Fresno Co., Calif. Dec. 27, 1932 any direction and no dense brush as far as I could see for several hundred yards. At 9:4 m saw a crow flying overhead. Saw two Mourning Doves. Went over this a.m. to talk to Mr. Johnson who owns the adjoining ranch. He gave me permission to shoot on his property, which is posted. He told me that he has tried to kill off all the brush rabbits and cottontails on this property since they eat so much of his barley. His barley field is just next to a thick growth of chanicle, Careotus and Mountain Mahogany in which I saw two cottontails run at 9:30 a.m. These rabbits, he says, eat a strip of his grain 8 feet wide and 1/4 mi. long on that side of the field every year. This p.m. I saw a cottontail run into this brush at 4:45 p.m. At 5:20 p.m. I scared another cottontail in a dry wash - it ran up the wash amid the scant vegetation and dry grass and disappeared. Saw several Dark Sparrows this evening in brush near White- crowned Sparrows. Received brush rabbit from Bouds. Dec. 28, 1932 Last afternoon I placed out 17 mouse traps along the dry banks of Waltham Creek where there are a few Dieger Pines and Oaks growing. These were left out mainly for Scetamia's meriami