PawStorer 1945 Journal 64. Nov. 18. Alameda & Santa Clara Counties, California drove back through San Jose to the King Road which went south & merged into the Silver Creeks road which we followed. A short distance before it ended in the San Felipe road, we turned off to the right (south) & investigated some old mine shafts a few hundred yards from the road. There were three short shafts near a group of old mine works but these yielded nothing, a fourth was marked "Danger-Powder Magazine" and was cemented around the edges & had a metal door which closed tightly enough to keep out bats so we did not go in. Up the hill to the west there were more shafts - some vertical (which were inaccessible tours) and two horizontal ones which we went in. one was quite long & had a vertical shaft a good way in but no signs of bats. The other was short with a rather tight entrance & smelled strongly of carnivore but no bats. There were undoubtedly others in the vicinity but it was almost dark by the time we had investigated these so we left at 5:15. A rock-sween was around one of the vertical shafts & Masky hawks & several horned larkles were seen on the hill otherwise nothing of interest ornithologically. Arrived in Berkeley at 7:30 PM.