Hoffmeister 1942 Itinerary June 2 5 mi. W + 1/4 mi. 3 Independence, 6000 ft., Inyo Co., Calif. Traps along the creek caught 2 Peromyscus boylii and 1 Sceloporus. 20 traps, 4 set near the creek, and the other set among rocks and Artemisia in an old creek bed, caught 1 Perognathus parvus, 1 Mus musculus, 3 Peromyscus maniculatus, 1 P. boylii. June 3 40 traps set among the Artemisia, Ceanothus, and Chrysothamnus caught 3 Perognathus parvus, 4 Reithrodonmys megalotis, several Peromyscus maniculatus and P. boylii. 5 traps set in a "meadow" in which there was much surface water, short grass, some willow and rose, caught 1 Microtus californicus. The traps along the creek caught 1 Microtus longicaudus and 2 P. boylii. 20 traps set in a willow thicket, grown with rose, wild onion, grass, Iris and with surface water in some places caught 1 Reithro- donmys and 1 Microtus longi californicus. Drove, via Little Pine Creek road, up to Onion Valley designated on local signs as Kearsarge Valley), 9000 feet. At this time of year the willows are just leafing out and snow is absent from the valley floor but the north and east facing slopes are still heavily covered with rapidly melting snow. Marmots were seen as low as about 8000 feet along the road, but they were most abundant in the rocky side slopes of the Valley. From 9:30 a.m. until 2 p.m., I saw about 30 marmots, all on the south facing slope of the valley in a distance between 1/8 and 1/4 of a mile. Shot 2 but