W.B. Davis 1935. Elba, Cassia Co., Idaho. June '2. of tolerance), the apparent necessities (being grasses and various herbs - pepper grass, Crucifera and others) - for food and an area sufficiently open to permit the growth of their food plants). On occasion their burrows were found at the base of Artemisia but the general rule was the more open ground where visibility was greater. These animals I believe rely to a large extent upon their eyes - rather than ears - as the means of receiving warning stimuli. I have topped a little size cautiously so as not to make a disturbance, and invariably the warning "lee' lee' dee' du'" was sounded. Some use the Artemisia as look out posts; others the tops of the mounds near the burrow entrances. We were told by the County Agent of Gooding County that squirrels were to be found commonly throughout the county - the short-tailed small ones". We found none after we had collected the four 4 mi. E of Gooding. They are doubtless found in the desert area between Shoshone and Rupert.