Escorndido, San Diego, California. I spent the Christmas vacation (Dec. 24- Jan. 2) at home, but only collected at intervals. Coyotes were as plentiful as ever among the hills. The abundant rains during the past four years resulted in a large increase in the number of voles and other mice. This increase of mice may account for the increase in grey foxes for I caught three in three nights, where I had never caught any before, altho I had trapped there repeatedly during several years. I set two steel traps about three feet apart and the next morning I had a grey fox in one and a big skunk in the other. It was hard to tell which was which when I came to skin them. I saw a number of wildcat tracks but did not catch any. Ground squirrels were not so much in evidence as they had been, while gophers were about holding their own. I was surprised to find the