J.R. Alcorn 1939. Ondatra zibethica S.W. Corner Walker Lake, 20 mi. S Schurz, Mineral Co., Nev. April 16. (No's JAL. & 257, & 258.) While going along the highway with Vernon Mills today we saw what appeared to be a grebe swimming low in the water. We were a considerable distance away but a shot from a 22 Rifle & the animal dove. We approached closer & could see the muskrat was not a bird so we shot it. Going farther to the south we stopped on some high cliffs & there below us was another muskrat swimming along in the water next to the cliffs. I crawled down near the water & as the muskrat started to swim by me I shot it with the 410 pistol. There is not any plants of any kind growing in or near the water so I don't see what these rats live on unless it is algae.