April 30, The Indians brought a fawn today, which they had taken from the body of the mother, It would have been born in two or three weeks probably, Saw a kingfisher today. May 1st. Saw a large starfish wrapped around a clam, apparently feeding on the flesh of the clam, This perhaps explains the presence on the beach of so many dead clam shells to, May 2 Saw one or more bats last evening, probably some species of Myotis. It kept so close to the trees and came so little into the open that we could not shoot it. The usual notes of the sooty grouse are five or six in number, uttered at intervals of less than a second. The fourth note is usually broken in two, or one may say that the fourth and fifth notes are short and uttered in about the usual time of one regular note. The shooting I suppose is all done by the snakes, all the birds we have traced up and shot by listening for the "hoots" have been