HG Weston 1945 10 Journal March 18 cont. Pierce Ranch, Tomales Point, Marin County, California. Sylvilagus bachmani 3 1.3% Birds (includes 1 Colaptes cafer) 4 1.6% Total 247 100 % Aver. mammals per pellet 3.4 During the day I saw the following species of birds around the ranch buildings: black phoebe, song sparrow, raven, marsh hawk ♂♀, white-crown sparrow, Brewer blackbird, red-shafted flicker, bush-tits, myrtle warbler, linnet, English sparrow, western blue bird, horned owl, barn owl, duck hawk ♂♀, red-tail hawk. The weather today alternated between being clear and being overcast.. Most of the day was clear however. A wind, westerly, blew most of the time. March 19 WE arose this morning about 7:15 a.m., ate breakfast and then went out to look at our traps. As I ran my line of 140 traps I picked them up as we are leaving Tomales Point this afternoon. I had my usual bad luck and got only 2 Sorex vagrans (♂♀) and 1 Hylociclla guttata. Trapping has been poor here all week. The Peromyscus maniculatus and the Procyon lotor are the 2 species most readily caught in those 2 size-classes of mammals. Back at the bunkhouse the small mammals were put up. The tide was low close to 11 a.m. So from 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. we went down to the ocean again and hunted for abalones. Red abalones are the