Feb 22 1927 I went to trap that I had set their were in one trap that I had set for a gopher nice Skunk. no 12591 this set I placed a trap tin the tunnel that gopher had dug Covering trap and leaving the hole open at mouth where trap was placed up on Visiting this trap the specimen had pulled the trap back in the hole, and was in their hiding these animals I think are the ones that eat up the gophers after they are caught in trap no 12592 was Caught in a bait set of some bird bodies that Van Bossem had skinned. I took bird bodies and trap down to a small ditch that runs into another larger ditch, this small ditch has no water in it and is covered with small bush and black bents vines over it where many birds root in them I took and placed trap in bottom of ditch about 6 ft back from other ditch and cover ed it with some leaves then I took and dug a hole in side of bank and put the bird bodies in it then I took some small sticks and stuck them up around bait and back toward