Red's Meadow, 7500 ft., Sierra Nat'l For., Moderate, Caly. July 8, 1948. A fisherman, who told me that I was on Fish Creek, 9 miles from camp, and that I would have to go back along the same trail I had taken. It was then 3:45, so I started at once, reaching camp at about 8:45, having gone between 20-25 miles, much of it over rough territory, without benefit of trails. Being fatigued a good deal of the time, my observations follow as impressions, for the most part. From about 8000 ft on up, the timber either drops out or becomes widely spaced, the trees being large. There is a fair amount of manzanita, ceanothus, and another widely distributed low shrub. Steller Jays are common along the timbered ridges. Sierra Grouse were heard booming several times from the higher ridges above me. Three grouse were flushed. The first an adult ?, did not fly, but slowly walked through a very dense alder thicket by a stream. I could not shoot because of the dense growth, but watched the bird for several minutes. As I left the thicket and entered some tall grass, a single young bird flushed at my feet and flew into a conifer. It was well grown and the flight was strong & rapid. The second bird flushed was an adult,