Feathers 1935. Boyes Prairie, Prairie Creek State Park, 240 ft., 24. Humboldt Co., Calif. (cont.) Oct. 11, 1935. The shooting, he said, drove them away for the time being only; they broke down the best fences he was able to build, and the dogs were frequently chased back by the elk. Mr. Konrad stated that at one time when in the woods, he was attacked by a bull elk, shot it thru the eye guard, and when it charged again he was forced to kill it. On 160 acres of cleared land, more than 200 of Mr. Konrad's sheep were grazing. He said he had had that many sheep there for the last two years. Previously, he had not had sheep. He was convinced that the presence of the sheep was responsible in a large measure for the absence, recently, of elk on his property. We went with Mr. Konrad to a place on the hillside 4 mi. NW of his ranch. There, in a brush thicket, covered with blackberry vines, we found the skulls and parts of the skeletons of two young bull elk. Russell and I took the two skulls. On this steep hillside, Aplodontia burrows had been dug, the excavated earth therefrom being largely responsible for the partial burial of the elk skeletons. Russell and I walked farther with Mr. Konrad in an endeavor to find another elk skeleton. We were unsuccessful, so