Auger, 1935 3 mi. NE. Vernolia, San Joaquin Co., Calif. August 7, As to mammals present now, he gave us a little information. A mountain lion (?) was living along the river bottomlands up until last year. It has not been seen this year. Other animals seen fairly frequently include: coon, opossum, kit foxes, coyote, skunk and wood rats. These were all inhabitants in the bottomlands before the extreme high water of the springtime of this year. However few carnivore and no wood rats have been seen since. The water drowned them all, he said. Indeed, he seemed to be right; for we searched for seven hours over as many miles of territory and found bits of only two wood rats. These had been completely submerged and not occupied since. And since the water covered the whole of the bottomlands from flood bank to flood bank (the first time in many years) it is not surprising that no more evidences of wood rats could be seen. Fifteen rat and mouse traps set overnight yielded no specimens. Dense thickets of wild rose, nettle,