Coffroell 1949 Journal 80 French Camp, 3150 ft., Humboldt Co., Calif. Aug. 22 (cont.) I had heard it. From 7:10 to 7:40 p.m. I whistled (vaguely like a screech owl) & called but finally gave up. Then two appeared and I collected a jovial [see species account], four bats were seen flying over or near the oaks at about 7:30-7:35 p.m. Back at the top of the ridge near the 2 barns showing on the map about 1/2 mi. WNW of Schoolhouse I picked up the eye shine of 2 raccoons & even saw one of them well enough in the flashlight beam to note the black mask, low fat body, & ringed tail. I fired 3 #6 shells trying to get one of them, but the difficulty of holding a 5-cell flashlight with enlarged reflector end and firing a gun at something in the beam at the same time was so great that they got away. They had been walking noisily along the border of the Douglas fir – maple – laurel forest here before I flashed the light on them. Aug. 23 I spent the night in sleeping bag on grass near this spot. Heard nothing during the night, but was awakened about 5:00 a.m. by what sounded like a Pygmy owl, but did not continue so [illegible] I could not check it after I was in a wide-awake condition. About 5:15 a chorus of scolds from Steller's Jay, in the nearby woods got me up; and I went