Red's Meadow, 7500ft, Sierra Nat'l For, Maderato, Calif. July 4, 1948 And running along a large down log we saw a large, bushy-tailed mustel- id. It was brownish, with black on the head. It was too large for a pine marm- ey, too small for a wolverine, so must have been a fisher. I chased it, hoping to get a shot at it, but it was incredi- bly fast and graceful, bounding along the ground, finally leaping about 2 feet onto the bole of a tree, then sprin- ging down to the ground and disappea- ing between two red firs. A pile of matted forepine quills noted at Soft- cher Lake in a m. May be associated with the presence of this animal, Accord- ing to Ingles, fishers are adept at preying on porcupines. No new birds noted. Many of the firs here are white pice. The dominants are thus; red fir, white fir, Jeffrey pine, lodgepole pine. July 5, 1948. A walk west of camp yielded 1 Red- breasted Sapsucker collected. Williamson Sapsuckers seen and heard commonly. Large buto perched on very top of a dead conifer could not be identified with cer-