Feathers. 1934. Colorado R, 1/2 mi. N Nev.- Calif. 41. monument, Clark Co., Nev- Feb. 4, 1934. (cont.) directions. Soon I saw a muskrat's head appear, about fifty feet from where it had died. I ran around a clump of arrowweed, came within range and shot the muskrat. It dived again and came up near shore. I shot it again. Darkness was approaching, which made it difficult to tell whether the animal was in the water near the other shore. I went to a place where I could get across the slough, walked back and found the muskrat dead. Camp was reached after dark. Feb. 5, 1934. In the morning, I put up a muskrat skin and skinned the beaver. I visited all my traps on the island without taking any specimens. After I reached camp, I made stretching-boards for the large skins and skinned out the second beaver. Late in the afternoon, I went to my muskrat traps, but secured nothing. On my way home, at dusk, I called a horned owl by screening [illegible] imitating the screech of a rabbit, with my fingers and lips. It alighted in a tree close by, and I shot it with the 410. When it flew, I shot it again with 16ga, and it fell with a crash in dense arrowweed and mesquite. As it was near