P. PEARSON 1948 29 jungle. Tolls with Ned Crane and perusal of ranch records reveal that the winter of 1940-41 was a very wet one with 56 inches, whereas last winter was very dry with only about 10 inches, 4 of it early in the fall and then practically no more until March. Low temps. reach about 27°, altitude of the dry lake and open area from which several Peromyscus came last Monday in 1200 ft. About 3 p.m. drove up to the radar station for gas. Although cool and misty here, it was extremely hot and sunny up there with a stiff, dusty, dry wind. The "fire" seen yesterday was what the ranch hands refer to as their "volcano" - a fissure out of which steam (or smoke) escapes: Heard a baracund this p.m. - perhaps the most important Peromyscus predator, Stanton's end of the railroad covers about 54,000 acres. Bat-hunting at dusk up the valley among the oaks where the stream crosses the road - lots of moths, but caught only a few quick glimpses of bats. Sept. 13 - Nothing in the steel traps. Saw two musk rats of deer, and a sow with 4 spotted young. The mouse line in the Serpents caught 4 Oryzomys and 17 Peromyscus and prairie, are Bothrodontops. Took it waited until the last minute (almost) to be caught. Will