Hooper 1938 2 mi. S Saratoga, 2000 ft., Santa Clara Co., Calif. July 9, + 6 rat traps set I set 75 mouse traps in an apple orchard and along the rocky thorn bay- oak - poison oak, Baccharis, and adenostoma. Took: 7 Peromyscus californicus, 3 P. truei, 6 P. maniculatus and 6 Dipodomys (4 D. venustus? and 2 D. heermanni?). Feathers set 8 traps in similar situations but more in orchards undergrown with grass (oats, foxtail) and took: 10 P. maniculatus, 1 Peromyscus californicus, and 6 Dipodomys (of 2 birds?). July 10, Set out 50 mouse traps laid out on top of a ridge 1/2 mi. S of camp in an old grape orchard. Wild oats were thick and about 2 ft. high between the grape vines. Burrows of kangaroo rats, apparently, with no dirt before them and Peromyscus m. - smaller and with dirt before them - were numerous particularly near the grape clumps. Also set 5 rat traps about house here at camp. Adenostoma, poison oak and yerba santa bordered the above orchard. Found this am: 13 Peromyscus m.,