W.B. Sanio 1935. 395 2 mi. S Payette, between Payette and Snake river), Payette Co, Idaho, June 1. burrows are individual affairs, not colonial, and are dug in the hard clay soil. This squirrel, it appears to me, prefers an open area to that covered with Artemisia. There is Artemisia growing near here in which a relatively few number of squirrels live. Most of them are in areas where the grass is about two inches high. They sit up in picket pin fashion when one is at a distance and utter their "lee, dee, dee" whistle; then as one approaches closer they drop on all fours, usually with the head toward the burrow entrance ready to retreat if one approaches closer. Usually when they are shot and not killed out- righ, they kick their way or crawl, into the burrow and are lost unless one wishes to do considerable digging. I spent most of the day making up skins. Aldrich went with Mr. Green to the mountains about 23 miles N of Weiser and returned about 5 P.M. with one adult female (Colubus columbianus) and a young