H.G. Weston 1945 7 Journal March 16 Pierce Ranch, Tomales Point, Marin County, California. cnt. rain today is the longest hard rain he has ever seen here on Tomales Point. After running my trap line early in the morning I spent the remainder of the morning making study skins of some of the mammals caught. Dr. Benson skinned the 4 coons he got last night. Most of the afternoon was taken up with cleaning the coon skins. I got 4 nice blisters on my right hand in doing this. Around 8 p.m. the rain stopped and the sky cleared. During the day, in the rain, I saw the following species of birds around the ranch houses here: black phoebe, raven, marsh hawk, white-crowned sparrow, fox sparrow, golden- crowned sparrow, Oregon juncos, Brewer blackbird, barn owl and western bluebird. March 17 Arising at 7:25 a.m. we ate breakfast at went out to look at our respective trap lines. I had very poor luck, catching 5 mammals out of 100 snap traps. The following were caught: 4 Sorex vagrans (3 ?) and 1/2 Peromyscus for study skins maniculatus . I spent the morning preparing the specimens I caught last night. Dr. Benson caught 2 more coons last night in steel traps. Traps were placed in draw running down to Bay from the Ranch Houses here. Shortly after noon Dr. Benson took the truck and went to Inverness and Pt. Reyes Station for supplies. While he was gone I partially cleaned the 2 coon skins, went for a short walk and worked a little around the bunkhouse here. I also looked in the