upper margin of the pines, good needle litter on the floor, very moist in some places, but no tunnels in it and no invertebrates seen while rolling logs, scratching for tunrels etc during trap-setting. Numerous spiders seen while jack-lighting, but nothing else. Jays very numerous and fearless in the pines. Elevation must be about 1200ft. After sunset it was quite windy (warm breeze from North) upon the baretop of the ridge, but no wind in the pines. Considerable dew fell late in the night and at dawn the Christy Ranch rally was well-filled with fog-banks - a fog that must have covered most of the pines, although not the uppermost. Sept. 4 70 museum species in the pines caught 3 Peromyscus: one immature, one adult with smashed skull, and one adult with back end eaten away. Not as much ant trouble as elsewhere stopped at ranch or my home and got 9 Antrozana out of the attic of the minery. There were several hundred others there as well. Also some fresh vegetables from the ranch garden. In the evening talked with "Red" Crane, the ship captain and manager. He says Stanton brought in 20,000 geese every year, but had trouble with ravens attacking the lambs. Killed the ravens with thallium, also killed off most of the logs with introduced log cholera. The ammunition we saw at Christy Ranch was just "odds & ends left over" from 100,000 rounds