Tom Larson Klipfontein, Am. N.W. Stein Kopf, Namaqualand July 16 broad upland valley hummed in my mountains. In the valley are boppies (isolated piles of big rounded boulders). These boppies have an abundant plant life so birds, reptiles and small mammals collect there. Set out traps in favorable spots in the bopple. Found a small cave where a porcupine had recently shed some quills. Saw two little striped mice playing on the humma boulder. When they saw me, they dodged under a huge rock. A few seconds out they came again. They seem to prefer daylight to darkness. In the evening I went hunting with a light way up on the mountain top. Saw the eyes of a Klip Spranger but it was too far away to shoot. Did not see any other animals. July 17 Caught two striped mice in the Klipfontein boppie, two small mice I couldn't identify, one small gerbil, four Cape Elephant Shrews. Shot a small snake and several lizards and skinks. Noticed a small Elephant Shrew by a rock. It was feebly running. I picked it up and noticed that it had been injured in one eye. I kept it for observation. Even though it was injured, occasionally it would leap 3 or 4 feet out of my hand. It moved its long nose about sniffing the air. Its eyes are very large and dark. The head is large in proportion to the rest of the body. Saw keeping four small front's Golden Mole alive in a box of sawdust and wood shavings. They were almost starved to death until I experimented by putting some dead lizards and skinks in their box. They ate the bodies immediately and began to pick up immediately at once.