Davis 32 946 2 mi. SE Beegum, 1650', Tehama Co., Calif. May 25, 1946 Turkey Vultures, Hummingbird (sp?), Mourning Dove, Brown Spotted Towhees, Wren-tits, Bush- tits, Robins, Bullock Orioles, Willow Goldfinches, Black-capped Warbler (hardly), Lapuli Snunting. Heard a Gray Sparrow and saw at least 5 wounds of cone-cut- tings at the bases of bigger trees. Most of the birds here are singing. Returned to camp for lunch. At star- ted to rain c. 11.15 a.m. After lunch, skinned and then set out a line of 80 traps up the canyon above described, from a point 50 yards above the road to a point about 150 yds. below the seepage area which is the source of the stream. Started druging c. 5 p.m. and turned to heavy rain c. 6 p.m. May 26, 1946 Pan traps c. 7 a.m. 3 Microtus californicus (one with broken skull discarded), one Peromyscus maniculatus, and 8 P. truei (3 immatures and 1 adult with broken skull discarded). Although it rained intermittently all night, and very heavily c. 4 a.m., only about 25 of my 80 traps had sprung. After picking up my catch I went to the head of the canyon and into the Black Oak woods, and turned logs & shovelled through the thick oak-leaf mold in the hope of turning up an arvicoline. The ground beneath logs+leaf-mold was far too dry, and the rains of the past day and a half had not dampened the ground appreciably. The usual fauna found