5 mi SE Murphy, Cuyahua co, Idaho, May 27 looked at the spot later, the badger started two holes, dug furiously at one for a short time and then hurried to the other one and dug again. He came back to the car to get the rifle, but when he got back the badgers had left the area and could not be found. Indications show that the badger must take some toll of this squirrel. I have found numbers of badger holes where they have been digging into leurodole burrows. There is a peculiar arrangement of the nose pad, when the animal wishes it is able to close the nostrils by pulling the nose pad down over them. This may be of some advantage to animals living in such an area where the dust is as fine as flour. These, like C. idahoensis have three anal glands, two lateral and one ventral. From a manipulation of the animal it looks as if there were extruded, and probably some scent deposited each time the animal defecated. Just what this function is, I do not know. These glands