Eutamias townsendii July 6 Brooks Meadow, 4300 ft., 9 mi. ENE Mt. Hood, Wood River Co., Oregon This species is very abundant among the fallen logs of the spruce-fir forest stand here. I have seen them around uprooted stumps, rotted and fallen logs, 2 feet up in a service berry bush that was not in the dense forest stand, but several feet from it, and around the bases of trees of various kinds. They give their bark singly, doubly, or in a trill. At this time of year, there are many young ones running about. July 8 One of these chipmunks was seen from about 10 feet distance climb about 12 inches up the trunk of a Pseudotsuga taxifolia with the skinned body of a Zapus which had been discarded from camp. The spot were the chipmunk was seen was some 150 ft. from camp. The animal proceeded to chew away at the rump of the zapus carcass, + hesitated once to "eye-me over" but resumed its biting in about 3 minutes. Some other person passed by within about 26 ft., the chipmunk dropped the carcass (which lodged in the bark) + hid in the underbrush. Within 2 minutes it was back at the body. It apparently ate only the thicker gluteus muscles of the thigh region but occasionally I could hear it cracking bone. The Zapus body appeared to be