there was a big mouse plague the next year, so he has opposed cat control measures. Has seen no wildcat or coyote for many years, but used to see lots of grey jays, sometimes sick ones. Jays' fates are still present. Jays golf course people used to poison shrubs routinely and he assumes they still do, April 21 Ron traps at 8 a.m.: 10 minotaur and 2 foxes. Left all traps set except the 10 mule trap, saw no cats. at 4 p.m. traps held 2 mules and 1 German hound. Picked up every other trap, leaving 50. No cats seen. April 22 at 7:30 a.m. traps held 3 mules, nothing else. Left all except those three set. Cloudy. Lots of mustard throwing on area and on hill beyond Sleepy Hollow. no cats seen at 3 p.m., saw no cats, traps held 1 minotaur and 2 German hounds. Saw 2 other German hounds. also saw qjfisher smoke yesterday. Shifted traps (50) to alternate sites, Graduate student Jim Nee, who is watching cats near Krebs' area in Tilden, says he talked with people at the nature area in January or February, told them he was planning to study cats, and they said that in that event they had better stop shooting them, thereby implying that they were still killing cats through the winter (as implied by Parker when I talked with him). He also found a dead cat at that time stuffed into one of the picnic stores