Big Creek, 1800 ft, Trinity Co., Calif., to Redwood Creek at Crossing of U.S. Highway 299, Humboldt Co., Calif. June 10, 1946 We stopped and made camp on Redwood Creek about 1/4 mile from the point where U.S. Highway 299 crosses it. Ate supper and then hunted Screech Owls across the creek, along a rather steep ridge. The lower slopes of the ridge was open and grassy, the upper third being covered with a rather heavy growth of small Garry and Black Oaks. Occasional Douglas Firs were noted. It responded to my calls in the Oaks, and after a few seconds flew a few feet over my head and disappeared down slope. After working the Oak on the top of the ridge without success, I made my way down slope, and about halfway down, started to calling. The bird was in a low alder thicket at the edge of an opening in the trees. The opening was covered with grass and ferns and ringed by Oaks, low Alders, and two or three clumps of Douglas Firs. When I shone my light on the ?, a second owl started chuckling, and I got its eyeline a few feet above the ?. I fired at the ? and wounded it, fired again, and the bird remained motionless, hanging upside down from a branch. When I went to retrieve it, the Owl flapped away and I was unable to find it. Shortly afterward the bird started calling.