Feathers 1935 Boyes Prairie, Prairie Creek State Park, 240 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Oct. 8, 1935. recently. The ground and ferns on all sides of the wallow were spattered with mud. This had occured within the time since the last heavy rain, five days hence. No human hand work was visible and the work of excavation was thought to be that of elk. No bear tracks were seen in the vicinity. A trail of mud spatterings with elk tracks was followed for a distance of 150 yards from the wallow. Ferns five feet from the ground were mud spattered. No cattle whatsoever were in that vicinity. At the junction of the Upper Gold Bluff trail with the Squashan Creek trail we found another elk wallow, almost identical with the first one seen, in size and general character of surroundings. The absence of mud on leaves and ferns indicated it had not been used since the last rain. As we walked down the Squashan Creek trail we noticed numerous signs of elk. One hundred and eighty five pellets were counted in one pile of elk droppings. About 1/2 mi. down this trail we heard cones dropping ft from a tall Sitka spruce. We soon noticed a chickaree aloft in the tree. Elk beds were numerous in this vicinity. A few hundred yards on southwest along the trail