J.G.Hall 1954 180 June 6 Roberts Ranch, 8200ft, White Mts., Inyo Co., Calif. willow for food but no aspen or alder. A long chain of small dams and behind each one are brown trout. No evidence of lodges so they must be bank-beav- ers. Golden eagle soaring over hill to N of camp at sunset. Set out 39 traps in sage + wet mdw after supper. In afternoon caught a snake which key's out to Thamnophis angus- tirostris, Spotted garter snake, which acc.to Schmidt & Davis occurs only in Ariz. & N. Mexico. 6 AM, worked downstream this morning until about 9. Shot an Empidonax and a Brewer's sparrow and saw long sparrow, white-crowned sparrow, violet-green swallow, Calif. guail, Steller's jay, Clark's nutcrack- ler, green-tailed and spotted towhee, Picolated & Tolmie warblers, Pewee, Olive-sided flycatcher (heard only), Hairy woodpecker, and Chickadee. Traps set half in sage and half along the wet mdw by the pond produced 14 Peromyscus Gambriensis and 2 microtus longicaudus. Morning cold + raw afternoon saw a sudden short