5. July 3, 1978 Went to town to get camera films and a few miscellaneous groceries. One of Bob Hoffmann's grad students from Univ. Kansas, name Howard Leviston, showed up to start a comparative study of chickarees and western gray squirrels. He will be live trapping around here for 10 days or so. Had lunch at Marshall and Jenny Whites, along with Jim Yoakum from BLM Reno and a young couple from his outfit. Don S? He is studying deer near Ely. After lunch Marty Raphael, Steve Osaki, and I skinned birds, selecting specimens from the sack of frozen bodies accumulated in the lab. Among others I put up a winter wren collected by Vern in January. It was fat! Barbecued a chicken, using some of the last sticks of mtn. mahogany brought to me as a gift so many years ago by Jim Nee. July 4, 1978 Split the usual jag of wood; then set up my camera and took pictures of hummingbirds and chipmunks. Went down to main camp, rewrapped yesterday's birds, and photographed young golden-mantled ground squirrels and young marmots in the station yard. The kids feed them and they get very tame.