J Davis 1949 July 2. Red's Meadow, 7500ft, Sierra Nev't 70m. Maddero, Italy weather. Had one Red-breasted Nutcrack in Camp today. Set traps in p.m. July 3. Put up 3 Sorex. Betty and I each caught one Jaapus, both in sets at the edge of alder thickets in grassy meadow. Also Caught Sorex, Microtus, Pergrmusous. Junco's and 2 young still around. Parents still feeding young, although they fly quite well. 2 p.m. went to Starkweather Lake. Shot a Clark Nutcrack from a flock of 40+5. July 4. Betty and I went to Lost Camp, about three miles below Rainbow Falls on the east bank of the Middle Fork of the San Joaquin R. to hunt for rubber snakes. We put in about 7 hours of looking between the two of us without finding anything. Turned over many logs, and many square yards of lumnus, without finding a thing. The altitude at Lost Camp is 6600 feet. Incense Cedars, small trees, are present in small numbers. Scrub oak is present, and the forest floor is well covered by ferns in places. The whole aspect is of a transition from Canadian to Transition. The lodgepoles and red firs have dropped out, while fir is still present, and the pines are all Jeffreys. Rubber snakes must be very rare here, and the snake brought in by the fisherman or June 20 was a rare find. July 5. Shot Townsend Solitaire. Set traps in p.m.