L Davis 1949 June 27. Led's Meadow, 700 ft, Sierra Nat'l br., Maderato, Calif. Mr Verret said that the ground squirrel and chipmunk populations around camp grounds was why down as a result, but numbers of these animals was normal along trails in the woods and away from camp grounds. The Pelting ground squirrel population at Goda Springs Meadow, near the fox pile, which was considerable last year, is now almost gone, according to Mr Verret. We have seen 1 chipmunk and 2 Pelting ground squirrels about our camp thus far, a great decrease from last year, but since it took them quite a few days to come into camp last year, it is too early to tell whether this decrease is real or not. Betty and I then walked around Led's Meadow proper. Saw a few pairs of evening grosbeaks (6 or 7) in some alders & conifers by a stream at the south end of the meadow, 1 Lincoln Sparrow with a beetle larva, or something resembling one, in its beak, 2 ? Thrunners, either Callophoe or broad-tailed. Around the camp ground, heard many trail flycatchers, saw 2 pileated warblers, juncos, thringed robin, Hermit thrushes singing all over. Heard several Western Tanagers. At the north end of the meadow, on our way back to camp, heard a confusion of short, harsh call notes, and long, rattling ones. All this emanated from a pair of Arctic