trines taken, and occasionally a partridge is killed - a short trine before my arrival a large partridge had been poisoned near the lake. Other were once frequently trapped & many martens are still taken - also minks. No workrats or rabbits are found on the island. I spent four days collecting at Shannon's gan Table and secured a number of birds, besides a few white-footed mice, two rats and one shrew. These mice were all caught almost old stump & logs near the lake shore, as were the rats & shrew. I found a number of mice in the traps partly eaten, usually with the head & eyes completely gone. I believe it was the work of shrews but also I baited several traps with meat & mice, I was unable to get any specimens in that particular place! The woods were full of the Sooty Grosbeak (Leucragapus socon see fuliginosus) but the male birds were exceedingly hard to find. In the morning - evening the oo-ooo- ooo-oo of the cackles came the head from every direction, but when even when one had located its tree