Cogswell 1949 Journal 76 French Camp, 3100 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Aug. 21 Caught 4 Deromyzus maniculatus (only) in my line of 50 traps this a.m. spiked? tem up. At 7:45 a.m. I walked SW'ward over more or less the same route as yesterday, but with more detours: (1) to try for a white-breasted Muthatch, which I fired at but did not obtain; (2) to get wren tit specimens; and (3) to check on the ext- tent of the oaks on the SW. facing slope at the end of the prairie. Regarding the birds, see the species accounts. The oaks I found to be much larger & more extensive on this, the first few trees. Vertebrate species seen or heard in the habitats covered, are tabulated on pp 86-88. I collected 1 Sitta canadensis, 2 Chamaea fasciata, 1 aplhelcoma coerulescens, and 1 Eutainia townsendi: at camp at noon I shot a 4 Loxia curvi- rostra as it alighted in the ashes of an old fireplace; but in skinning it I inadvertently cut into the base of its rectrices so that ½ of them fell out, which with the generally poor condition of the feathers anyway (in moult) led me to discard the specimen. Aug. 22 This morning I set out via auto to see what birds were to be found in the "Bell Wells" country along the ridge extending NW of School- house Peak. The grassy "prairie" and scattered oak woodland which usually borders it