Smiley 1936 Camp: Smoke Creek, 3900 ft., 9 mi. E Calif. Line, Washoe Co., Nev. July 8 Shot one redwing and two Brewer blackbirds. Prepared these as specimens. Set 30 mouse traps along the edge of Smoke Creek, 3900 ft., 9 mi. E Calif. Line, Washoe Co., Nev. Purpose to get a shrew. Character of creek: 1 foot wide in places with water flowing; expanded to a width of 10 feet where water was 2-3 feet deep with no evident current. Cat-tails and tules in clumps along creek, making marsh-like strips along edges of creek. cottonwoods in a belt 10 to 100 feet wide extending back from creek. 30 mouse traps set an average of 15 paces in marshy strips among cat-tails and tules. Found nest of long-tailed chat in thick brush 30 feet back from creek. Nest 3 feet from ground, saddled on twigs. Material: grasses, and bark stripped from grass-like plants and certain compositae (the bark of which has) "stringy" character. Lining of nest not markedly different than exterior structure. Three young in nest fully feathered.