Hoffmeister 1942 Itinerary 5 mi. W + 1/4 mi. S Independence 6000 ft, Inyo Co., Calif. limited amount of time, caught nothing. Broke camp shortly after dinner (after having spent a very windy night here), and drove along Tuttle Creek into Pone Pine. Thence on to Independence, where we turned west and drove up to "Grays Meadow, 6000 feet", according to a Forest Service road sign. Our camp is along "Independence Creek", shown on the topographic maps as Pine Creek. We are above the junction of Pinon Creek with Pine or Independence Creek. May 29 Set out 40 traps in the vicinity of "Grays Meadows". 18 traps were set along a small, slower flowing, spur-branch of Independence (=Pine) Creek. Along this small creek, there were oaks (Quercus), water birch, willows, Rosa, some grass, much dead brush, with considerable litter. Traps were set in most instance near the stream's edge. Caught 7 Peromyscus boylii and 2 Neothrodonymys megalotis in these 18 traps. 22 traps set in the Artemisia-Chrysothamnus-buckbrush association on the open flat above Independence Creek caught 3 Dipodomys (panamintinus?), 1 Perognathus longimembria, 2 Peromyscus boylii, and 5 P. maniculatus. There are numerous Citellus beecheyi throughout Grays Meadows, wherever there is suitable rock piles. Interestingly, few or no young have been seen by myself here, whereas along Walker Creek 10 days earlier, young Citellus beecheyi far outnumbered the adults. Shot a California Jay from the top of