seeds than on anything else apparently, Little piles of scales on logs and stumps are frequent, but I have seen no large piles of scales on the ground like those made in Alaska by E. Hudsonius, Hal Anthony caught several Flying Squirrels here, principally in meat-baited fox traps, I trapped for them particularly, but got none; apparently he got all living in the neighborhood, The Microtus here puzzle me. Some appear to be Eutomys, but I cannot determine the matter in the field. They are not very common, and are principally nocturnal. Some I caught in thin grass along the creek near camp and others in brush on the bench above the mine, I saw one run under a stick in the forenoon, and on rolling stones found two, which I caught with my hands. Both were immature,