M. Boyers 1932 Bodfish, 2600 ft., Kern Co., Calif. 79 December 22, 1932 hillside and as I approached the bush it started down an old hole, bet suddenly its muscles were thrown in reverse and it backed fercily out of the hole and fell over dead about two feet from the hole. There was nothing in the hole to keep it out and I believe death overtook it as it was going in and that the following action was pure reflex. Or just it up. The weather portent doesn't look too good, although we had sun today. juncoos, Fieldmouses, Blue birds, and finnets are the commonest residents at present. December 23, 1932 Got a Peromyscus truei, a Peromyscus boylii, and a Peromyscus maniculatus in the traps and saw one black- tailed jack's Rabbit which did not present a shot. I put up the mice and spent two or three hours standing and walking in its driving rain to see what birds could be seen or secured. I saw the remains