PEARSON 1951-1952 Chrysope spimm. preferred by trees apparently menatta the snow from earth but just as micrommata do. Jan 15 My traps in some place caught nothing - only one spring in a.m. at station 11. Spring again at 6:30 p.m. Only 3 fresh diggings on its cenane area; at 11, 9, and near 18. Scarcity of digging due to my removal, my distractions, weather or? add to fear of pure desert Anatolia. Saw them times today sitting, standing & walking in the desert, but not feeding - but maybe worried about observer. The locating & shot near station 18 this morning had done a slight amount of separating from 2 slanting holes about 3 ft. apart, plus feeding scratching around one of them. About halfway between it had started another hole from the surface. It was 4 or 5 inches deep but definitely blind. Picked us thoughts there had been an old hole then but totally collapsed. Tried to dig out the rest of this locating &. Found one mouse nest north-worthly of the brown broots of the fresh plants but probably not the current nest. Numerous fresh bits of plants in the tunnel. Implies this tunnel was as deep as 21". Dog tracker went across area. The two recent my noticing rocks were above ground but didn't do much digging. Several other dug as usual: Walked up the road to some deserty region to see how far out from grass the burrows went. In no place was all trace of trees absent, but nowhere is one further than 200 yards from at least one tota or one clump of Festuca. Found no fresh diggings more than 75 yds