Red Star 1944. Journal 8.12 1 mi. SE San Benito Peak, 4400', San Benito Co., Calif. Aug 8. After dinner set mouse traps in stream & added 20 more house-mouse type for shrews. Then set 30 museum specials up the hill for Dipos. (Same baits as previous night). Dr hiller collected a Suede owl down the road (North) a short distance from Camp and the large bats 2 or 3 of them were conspicuous between camp & the road as they flew over the meadow, once two one chased another with much squealing - another loud grating sound for scat. Heard house trap go off about 9 PM & investigating found another sore. satied shortly thereafter. Aug 9. awoke 5:45 & after breakfast ran trap lines. 1 gopher in gopher set and one Peromyscus maniculatus (young) in sets by stream. Dipos sets yielded nothing so I took them in. Skinned shrews and drove with Dr hiller to a point about 1 mi NE San Benito Peak where Dr hiller found a concentration of Bell Sparrows on the ridge. The ridge ran east & then south and had a very different aspect from the hills around camp. The basic rocks seemed to be an argillaceous sandstone & the soil fine & sandy. The original growth was a tall chaparral - perhaps 10 feet high, but the south & west facing slopes had been burned over one or two years ago. The chaparral