P. PEARSON 1948 the cattle have been moved off of Stanton's end (west) of the island. They have only a half- dozen cattle around the ranch buildings. There are some wild pigs and wild sheep. One smallish pair (maybe 40 lbs) lay dead along the road, appearing to have been shot. Numerous jays seen, as well as amer. eagle, ravens, dove, killdeer, house finch, Benick's war, shrike, black throate, Rufous-crowned Sparrow-p, Jays and frogs calling after dark. U.S.C. Marine Laboratory yacht lay off the pier when we returned (about 6:30) from the ranch buildings, and apparently is going to stay all night. Aug 29 The half-dozen traps around the house caught 4 Peromyscus alitulus, 1 jnr, 1 pug, 1 [illegible], and 1 adult vole. Saw no bats flying but 2 in the abandoned "New Orleans" house. Shot one of them, a Corythomene, at 10 p.m. Weather overcast till noon, then sunny. Put out about 90 Museum Specials baited with walnuts, mostly in rocky-open areas and along an oak gully. also 6 steel traps for foxes. Saw flicker, sparrow hawks, Pheasants?, hummingbird sp., wandering tutter, gt blue heron. about 5 p.m put about 30 museum specials along the flat, dusty bed at the mouth of the river", mostly along the edges which are walled up in places, rocky in others and cut through shell strata in other. Very clearly defined mouse runways wind in places and dense the dusty open places toward the pebble beach -- such too clearly