Redwood City - San Mateo Co. Calif. January 11th was spent with Mr. Littlejohn hunting mice back of Redwood. Back in the hills there were a number of old board fences that had been previously torn down and the lumber piled in rows ready for hauling. Owing to the wet weather this had been delayed and it seemed as tho all of the mice in the neighborhood knew it as they had made their nests under the boards. All that we had to do was to repile the lumber and pick up the mice, many of which, were in a kind of stupor. We got about forty harvest mice, six shrews and seven or eight meadow mice in three hours. We found one nest that contained seven adult [illegible] harvest mice. Mr. Littlejohn had found one previously with thirteen in it. I found two litters of four, of young meadow mice. The first lot were only a few days old as they had no hair on them. The others were about the size of a California shrew and had considerable