J. Davis 1940. 22). Aug. 5. 3 1/2 mi. e. and 5 mi. n. Yaacolt, 500', Clark Co., Wash. Nyctis semotis and Nyctis yumanensis, fairly common. See every night. Ochotona- found in one small rockslide. Birds- for plumage generally. Very silent on the whole. Not numerous. Tree and barn swallows abundant about farms. Hairy woodpeckers common, as are trail flycatchers, robins, flickers, russet-backed, and Stellar Jays. Shot bats after supper. Aug. 6. Backeds left 10:30 a.m. via Longview & Columbia River Highway to Chinook. Contacted Mr. Tugrow, who gave us permission to stay in an abandoned house on his land. The house is surrounded by dense thickets of Himalaya blackberry, beyond which is long grass, and beyond the grass, Sitka spruce (the dominant tree), red alder, Crsema sp., and Douglas fir. To the southwest a few hundred yards lies the main highway and the Columbia River. Set a few traps in the grass and in the elder & rose thickets, and caught 1 Jaffree and 1 Sorex vagrans. Aug. 7. Sibby & I looked for birds along the ocean front through North Head, Seaview, Long Beach, and Tran-berry Station, and along Willapa Bay. No shorebird was seen. Noted were: - Pigeon Guillemot (abundant off North Head Lighthouse), California, Ring-billed, And Western Gulls (farallon?). Cormorants, Red-breasted merganser, Barn & Violet-green Swallows, Winter Wren, Bohin, Bewick Wren, Red-shafted Flicker, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Spotted Towhee, Audubon Warbler,