Kingsley 1980 50 4Oct Plume Canyon Rd, Continued 20 meters apart, bait: out-coated with peanut butter and lard or grease. All set along sand and gravel wash lined with sageshrub and purpledee ggoing NW from road. Set 20 traps, 2 trap stations, Sherman Museum special, going up rocky hill N of road to first Joshua tree. This location will probably show up on my maps as the same as the seismologic station. Surrounding vegetation is sageshrub community. Saw 10+ Ravens flying over and around rocky hills. Saw cow sign. Many small mammal burrows around wash. Species trapped at this location previously were: Peromyscus maniculatus, Neotoma, Peromyscus crinitus, micropus + merriami, Perognathus longimembris, parvus, torridus (?), Onychomys torridus. Finished setting traps 1800, headed for camp. After dark, John Radke arrived, looking for hanters. Spoke for awhile, he helped formulate the idea of studying Chuckars to see if they might have displaced the slovenance Quail. 5Oct Trapping results same location as 4Oct. Rocky hill: Peromyscus crinitus, 3, all snap traps, 2 of the 3 were ot with rakes abdominal, 3rd was mutilated by ravens? No other animals caught. Success 3/20 Wash line: Perognathus parvus, 1; Peromyscus crinitus, 3; Dipodomys merriami, 1; Onychomys torridus, 2. Total 7/60 all in Sherman's, none in Museum specials. All released.