A.C. ZICARRE 1959 Sorex ornatus Strawberry Canyon, 850'ft. Beechey, Amador Co., Calif. Coll Nov.30,'58 D,60 Feb,10,'57 Put up a SHADDO which had been a captive at home. Found dead in cage - Perhaps from lack of water for 8 or 10 hours - Plenty of meat left in cage. Ate beef, pork, chicken, potatoes and dead mice with equal zestish. Testes enlarged (3x4mm). Anal glands not obvious. No musty odor to body. 1.0 mi. N, 2.0 mi. E MARTINEZ (salt marsh), Contra Costa Co., Calif. Feb.14 A ♀ showed testes 1½x2 mm. No musty odor. Anal glands not obvious. Tail tip had been lost before animal was trapped. 9 mi. (by road) S PACINGS, San Benito Co., California Mar8 1 ♀ dead in live trap of W.B. Quay. See 3x5,in. card in this Journal, this date, for ecological, etc. data. Specimen's uterine horns appeared enlarged (almost 2 mm in o.d.) but no emb's or scars noted. No "placenta" or mars nor lactation either so may not have been post-partum. No anal glands or ooze evident. Acc # 135-7 1.0 mi. N, 2.0 mi. E MARTINEZ (salt marsh), Contra Costa Co., Calif. Apr.17 1♀,2♂ from marsh, Anal glands of ♀'s evident (a little smaller than testes) but no ooze noticed. Epid. tubules evident & ♀'s uterine horns were enlarged. # 1401 & 1402 same trapno. # 1403 dead in live trap