a. Feathers. Jan. 15, 1934 Jap. Ranch, 500+ ft., Colorado R., 1/2 mi. S.E. Searchlight, Clark Co., Nev. (cont.) The cat gave a leap, immediately following the explosion and tore its foot free of the trap. In a few jumps it was out of site. Suppos- ing it mortally wounded, I searched thru the dense tangle of dead and growing arrow - weed in the hope of finding it there. My final shot had been aimed directly for the heart, as was the first, and the cat had lain down as tho near death after the first shot. I am certain it could not have survived the two wounds long. After a short search, I went to Mr. Updyke to enlist the aid of his dog in finding the supposedly dead cat. He and his ldog both aided me in the search, but the dog finally ran afoul of another trap and I had to release him. That ended the dog's usefulness, so I reluctantly gave up the search to see to the remaining traps. Where I had made a special setting of three traps for a coyote, I found the traps gone. The traps had been unfastened, set in a close triangle and a quail had been buried in the center with just a few feathers showing. Trap pans were covered with burlap and all covered with sand. The arrowweed had been torn and bitten considerably at places where the animal