10/17/25 52 October 17, 1925 - no rain. In a trap baited with oat meal set along the brush fence at an altitude of 850 I caught another (10591) Blue-tailed Rat. A trap at 1000 altitude had the foot of another. Just over the rocky ledge 1100 feet altitude is some wild narrow bladed grass. Traps set in this grass have never cought anything but one of my large snap rat traps set fly a crevice in a rock at the edge of this grass (10590) caught my first perfect kiomys. The ants were there but they had done no damage. A trap just below the rocky cliff in the heavy stemmed plants had a kiomys which was ruined by ants. A trap set at the base of a tree near a large rock (10592) had a Peromyscus; the ants had ruined the skin but the skeleton and skull were [illegible] good. I had another Peromyscus in the crevice of a rock near by but the trap had crushed the skull and the ants did the rest. At an altitude of 1000 feet there is a big rock which stands! out from the others along the cliff. w A tree is firmly rooted in one of its big crevices. I set a steel T trap in the crevice and baited it with tankage. This trap caught (10593) an opossum. He was quite pugnacious d, [illegible]