Sept 30 Night clear. No dew on Tillion grass. Raven (marked inf) Traps at 7:30 a.m. Saw 3 cats. Row A 1 Mink 0 Raccoon (Mars) | Row F 3 Minks 1 Raccoon 0 mm Row B 1 " 1 " 1 " | Row H 1 " 2 " Row C 2 " 1 " | Row I 2 " 1 " Row D 1 " 2 " | Row J 1 " 1 " Row E 13 " | Row K 2 " Total 11 Mink, 11 Raccoon, 6 mm. Total 28 In eight traps set near Inspiration Point at 5 p.m. last night were 3 Minks and 3 Raccoon. Saved the 3 minks for dissection. Oct. 6 During the flotation-incineration process being used to separate game and ear tags from carnivore scat, most of the mole crickets are lost; and there have been numerous. Also lost are cormorants; there have been at least 3 so far. Cut sections of Mink's lungs. Those listed as "hemorrhagic" at dissection show in slides large areas in which the alveoli, all alveoli, are filled with acidophilic fluid (blood?). Frequently 1/2 the area of a section shows one lobe will be thus congested. Judging from the small air photos in Brant's thesis, I have been looking up scat from an area of about 40 acres. My grid is about in the center of this area. Oct. 9 Orvis. Picked up 6 owl pellets and a point of scat north of pasture. Owl pellets = 29 mole crickets, 19 Mink, 2 mm, 1 Peromyscus, and 1 rabbit.