March 17 Pierce Ranch, Tamalee Point, Marin County, California. Haybarn for bats but could find none. Dr. Benson got back from town around 5 p.m. WE both then went out to set some more traps. He set out some steel traps, more I set out 40 Museum Special Snap Traps. My traps were set out in fresh water marshy area back of the house here. After dinner I wrote notes and went to bed. Yesterday we ate coon meat. One meal it was fried, another it was stewed. The latter meal tasted much better. The coon has a peculiar fishy taste, otherwise it tastes pretty good. This morning the sun shone. About 2 p.m. it clouded over and a hard rain fell until just before 5 p.m. It then cleared up again. It is extremely cold here. Each evening I pile on all of The clothes I can and I still freeze. The only warm place I can find [illegible] is in my sleeping bag. Birds seen around the ranch houses today included: song sparrow, black phoebe, western meadowlark, Brewer blackbird, linnnet, white-crowned sparrow, red-shafted flicker, Raven, myrtle warbler, western bluebird, chestnut-backed chickadee, bushtit and blue heron. March 18 After getting up just before 7:30 a.m. and eating a quick breakfast I went out and ran my trapline. Out of 140 Museum Special Snap Traps set I caught 3 Peromyscus maniculatus, 2 Sorex vagrans (2 to 7). I returned to the bunkhouse and made study skins of the 2 shrews. 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. we went down to the beach opposite the ranch houses to hunt for