C. ZIEGLER 1956 JOURNAL May 26 (cont) Point Isabel Center Coast Co., Calif. To some extent but new leaves were shooting up again from old stubs. Runs in vicinity of [?] bush were open in places & running under mats of sea grass in other places. Found 1 inch long tips + sections of bush twigs under a 4" wide piece of driftwood lying here under the bush. Runs passed showing Microtus - sized droppings on floors. A dead Microtus phaecon on a main branch which ran out more or less horizontally & showed several cut stubs and was 8mm thick, barely bent under wt. of mouse even at tip of branch, so the Microtus wouldn't be too big to get out there to cut the twigs. None of the stubs seen were more than 1 foot off of ground with bushes were up to 3' tall. 8 traps set around a large section of wharf lying in marsh were un sprung - had thought something might be using the space of 3 or 4 inches open beneath the large boards. Pick up a skull of Rattus from old skeleton + scree of fur & skin on edge of marsh beside road. Fur almost yellow-brown color, skull apparently had weathered for some time as teeth fell out easily. (Rattus naviculare)