Seib, R. 1980 22 Nov Berkeley to Hastings Reservation, Monterey Co., California buildings, including a lab, barn, branch- house, and houses of permanent staff scientists. Upon exiting the vehicle, I am struck by the abundance of bird and mammal life here. Hastings is set in classic Mediterranean habitat of rolling grassy hills spotted with salt-marsh clumps. The dominant chaparral plant is a chemise. Upon getting ourselves situated, we hiked east of the buildings ca. 1 1/2 mi. to the chaparral (thicker) lines. Coming over the ridge to this area a pair of Lynx rufa were sighted. The trap line run through predom- inantly chemise and traversed a steep slope. At each of 35 stations we set 3 museum specials within 6' of a stake and lured baited the traps with peanut butter and rolled oats. Dave Darle and I set our sets together and then walked back to camp observing a bird trap line of John Davis (resident vertebrate biologist). In two of the six traps we saw two Dark-eyed Junco and a [crizzal] Throasher. We arrived back and