W.B. Davis 1935 2 mi. E Hagerman, Gooding Co, Idaho. May '30 drag the animal to flowing water and force it in, drowning it and leaving it for about two hours. After such lapse of time he claims there is no more scent to be detected. If a catch is made I shall try his plan. He claims that last winter he and his son trapped 22 skunks for which they averaged less than 50 cents each. When I visited my gopher sets at Mr. Seler's place I found only two gophers; the other traps had not been sprung so were left. This one, an old F, was more fuscous in color than the young one and to me darker in color than the old ones from south of the river. Also this female had only 4 pairs of mammae. Three new sets were made in his field. In the traps set in the marsh I caught no muskrats, but did get a S Virginia Rail and a S Sora Rail. Both were caught by the foot, the trap in each case breaking the leg in two. The feathers of the Virginia Rail were badly damaged so the specimen was saved as a skeleton. I killed a S Yellow-headed Blackbird.