5 mi. SE Murphy, Owyhee Co., Idaho, May 16, from view. It is very difficult to see these animals when they are setting motionless). Their colors blends in well with that of the substrate and with me, I must rely upon some motion to really detect their presence. I set out two steel traps in the runway near the entrance to the burrow. At 6:00 P.M. I had caught nothing. I also set a rat trap, well covered save for the pan, at the entrance of a burrow into which I had seen a squirrel disappear. About an hour later when I visits the set I had caught one by the foot. It was still alive, but died shortly, probably due to some internal injury that was not evident from the outside. I set out four more rat traps at the burrows into which I had seen squirrels run. These were left out to be collected tomorrow. We wounded several that got down into the burrow before we could reach them. We attempted to dig them out but found that the burrows, save for the sub surface runs and