J.Rait 1956 46 Journal cast side Spruce Mtn., 8400-8800 ft. ELKO Co, Nevada June 26 Arose at 5 AM as usual and checked my trapline - in the same locations as the previous night. I caught only 1 Microtus longicaudus . At about 4-4:30 in the morning the local House Wren began singing and had barely stopped at all by 7 AM so I shot him. However, he was only wounded and escaped me. At the time I shot him he was bringing nesting material to the pile of twigs in the team attached to the shack. I hunted for about 3 hours in the firs and pines on the slope above and to the south west of our camp. Up near the top of the ridge at about 8800 feet I spotted a g Williamson Sapsucker flying back and forth between two patches of timber. After missing several wing shots I finally shot her from a dead fir tree. Very near to this spot I shot a male of the same species from the dead top of a fir tree. On this ridge-top area I also saw Chipping Sparrows, a singing Ruby-crowned Kinglet, an Audubon Warbler & Western Flycatchers. I heard singing Hermit Thrushes, Mountain Chickadees and Rock Wrens . When I got back to camp I saw a Red-shafted Flicker in a fir tree right above camp and shot it. Checking my trapline in the late morning I found 2 young Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels. In the early afternoon Ward spotted an adult of this species struggling in one of my traps. We retrieved it for a specimen. In the evening at about 8:45 we heard Poo-wilk calling again and Ward collected one. Quite a few