J Crowley 1941 4. Journal May 27 Queen Gill State Park Mendocino Co., Calif. dropped the snake which quickly slid ed under the table. Since the mouse was dead and Mrs Grunell held it, I couldn't love that part of the collection; and chloroformed it. I put it up in formalin since the nose was so cut and torn - probably due to our pulling the two apart - that it could not be put up. I also prepared the little green frog I had captured on the preceding night in the meadow or grassland south west of camp. Following this, I skinned a small Meri- tes while Viola Memmler skinned a very much smaller Petrodontops which had been donated to us by Mr. and Mrs. Englehardt, the ranger and his wife. At 3:45, Viola Memmler and I walked from camp eastward through the canyon to the circle at the end of the road, then took an old, unused road which leads through a stand of alders. We followed the road for 1 1/2 miles through Douglas fir, Ponderosa pine, Juniper and Sequoi a. We found two red alder down near the creek which ran 30 ft about below the road. We turned back - the