Hoffmeister 1941 Sorex vagrans Avalia Beach, Tomales Point, Marin Co., Calif. June 10. A specimen (D.F.H. no 429) was taken (caught by hand) about 250 yards up the hill from Avalia Beach this morning about 6 a.m. It was apparently frightened from its nest when the zoology class (about 30 individuals) went up the trail. It jumped in bewildered fashion across the trail just in front of me, and I caught it in the grass. These hills, in this immediate vicinity, have no trees or high or dense shrubs. As a matter of fact, the vegetation is of a dry chaparral type. The plants were the shrew was caught were: Stipa, Rumex, Bromus, and a large yellow Lupinus. The lupine was the largest shrub in the immediate vicinity.