Red's Meadow, 7500 ft., Sierra Nat'l For., Madera Co., Calif. July 6, 1948. Hunted west of camp in a.m. Heard pair of Steller Jays, collected one from a fir. Red-breasted nuthatches heard several times. Saw Williamson, but not red-breasted, Sapsuckers. The finches seem to prefer open forest of large red & white firs and Jeffrey pines, & avoid the denser lodgepole pine areas. The only new bird noted today was red-tailed hawk, heard screaming above camp. The large rutes seen previously are probably all of this species. About 6 p.m. saw a thin brown, black-tipped tail disappear over the edge of the streambank behind the tent, and figured it was weasel. At the same time, a pair of juncos, a pair of ruby-crowned Kinglets, and an Audubon warbler, and numerous white-crowned Sparrows, moved thru the alders & willows along the stream, incessantly giving alarm notes. A short time later the weasel dashed across the roots of a tree by the stream, crossed the roader with a single bound, & disappeared into the grass. It was small, and might have been a least weasel, but it moved so rapidly that I could not be sure. The birds continued to mob for some time, but the weasel never reappeared.