Turning 1935 2 mi. S. Melba Canyon Co. Idaho. May 29, 1935 Along the bluffs above the squirrel colony I saw several Rock Wrens, Say Phoebis were resting on the face, a pair of White Throated Swifts circled around the crest for a few minutes and left. A Golden Eagle sailed above the cliffs for more than 10 minutes, and I investigated a large nest placed on the face of the cliff about 60 feet from the base but no eggs were present. Jackrabbits were numerous in the sage on the flats back from the cliffs. A Marmot was shot, in the rocks on the crest above camp. Bob-whites were continually heard calling from the fields below. May 30, 1935. Stayed in camp all day today, cleaning up, and doing 3 squirrels and one Marmot. Both squirrels and marmots are laying in fat for the fast approaching time of estimation. The weather became stormy in the afternoon and a cyclonic thunderstorm hit early in the evening and lasted well into the night. May 31, 1935 Packed and lefts early this morning, spent several hours in Kamper laying in supplies, then continued on toward Payette on the eastward highway. At a point 4 1/2 miles southeast of New Plymouth we stopped in rolling Artemesia covered country to repair a flat tire, and I shot a Burrowing Owl and catched a large live male Citellus idahoensis. No other form of bird life other than the Burrowing Owl was seen here. Citellus were scarce and exceedingly wary. At Payette we heard that Citellus idahoensis was common in the open fields south of town so