(cont.) think, he could easily accomplish. He stated that marsh hawks (Circus hudsonius) ate a great many muskrats from his traps. As many as six muskrats a day had been lost to marsh hawks, he claimed! After we returned to camp, I started out to see to my muskrat traps. In the flat below camp, I stopped to shoot swallows. Twenty or more were circling above the flat and over the slough, altho it was quite windy. I shot two (Ridoproone bicolor) and continued on my way. One muskrat was taken from a trap. Another trap had been sprung. I returned to camp with Snyder, who had a shunk and a grey fox. I urged him to try to catch a bobcat or a kit fox. Specimens requiring my care have been coming in so fast that I have had no opportunity to set my steel traps farther from camp. I believe a greater catch would result, if I were to do so. Feb. 11, 1934. The two swallows were put up in the morning. I then shinned the fox and shunk, which Snyder had caught. Late in the afternoon, I went to my traps in the "first bottom", opposite camp. Two