34 W. Maquinchoo a sharrow hawk took off and dropped a dead snake into the road, Philodryas [illegible] Gap-trofe at our campsite; sign of Rattlebox a small quince / pig, a few tucan's night calm, partly cloudy, not cold, 200 or 300 m out, night vision goggles saw nothing. Oct. 24 morning party overcast, calm, my trofe consists of 24 big Sherman, 24 museum specials (corn meal), 1 Pied Piper, and 8 steel traps. Two of the steel traps were in gopher sets, the only good open termola that I could find, and both these contained Scaled Rattlesnake, 200 alive. One other steel trap contained a Rattlebox kind food; no other traps tombal. Anita had 30 traps out (4 cage, + Pied Piper, + 7 steel + 7 Sherman + MS). Caught 1 Rattlebox in a steel trap. Later in the morning cought an Abodon in a Sherman. The habitat here is bushy stuffe, mostly flat, with a really small about 100 m from camp, 2 shallow lakes across to road, about 5 km away. The soil is light & sandy. The offer area are sprinkled with tiny tufts of grass, a few bunches of cerry ? T-estra? and plants of a dairy that shumbler or armadillo dig the rootlof. The rest are bushes up to 2 m, mostly thorny : a thorn bush with big spines and plump black bean pods, a thornbush with long narrow leaves, a thornbush with berberis leaves, a thorn- bush with tiny leaves, numerous Farrea plants,