J. Rodgers Frank Clarke's Ranch, I mi S.W. Laytonville, Mendocino Co., Calif. March 31, 1938 the open country. If they don't find any dead sheep they kill them. He says that the berry crop has been poor this year, and that explains the larger number of bears which have come onto his place. He also says that he has never seen a bear kill a sheep though he has seen one chase a sheep. He says that Andy Bowman has seen a bear kill a sheep. He says, however, that in 1926, he found 8 sheep death, and some were torn to pieces as bears do, not partially buried, as lions do. He says that the lions use to be bad, but the last sheep killed by a lion was in 1926. Since lions are said to kill more than they want to eat, it seems likely to me that the 8 sheep were killed by a lion. The lion may not bury all the sheep that it kills, and may have been frightened away after killing them. Clarke has never seen a lion. Around 1926, Bruce, the state lion hunter, came into the country but refused to run his dogs over a country that had been poisoned. Clarke sympathizes with him on that move;