J. Crowley 1941 Journal May 29 (Queen's Gulch State Park, Mendocino Co., Calif.) A sort of cemetery-like grassy slope - the charred stumps of old lowland fir and redwoods interspersed with the young green growth surrounded the grassy spots. In the middle of the slope was an old log cabin (with) still inhabited. Vids northward and I walked through 2-3 meadows before reaching the one where we had set traps on May 25 - and where I had crossed the ridge and caught the green frog. The return to camp by way of an old trail just above the road which runs through the bottom of the canyon. After dinner we laid a trapline of 23 Museum Special Traps, 5-10 paces apart, just west of Camp 27 in the meadows. It set for Microtus, pine vole and caught one as the preceding night. May 30 Queen's Gulch State Park, Mendocino Co., Calif. Of 23 traps set on previous night 13 had captures: It caught a (a) Zoophis oaricus in trap #58 ft from the creek in the middle of a grassy meadow. The animal was still alive so I used the Dickinson technique of delivering the fatal blow - the back of my hand laid sharply across the animal's neck and chest. In other traps - these