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except a Spotted Owl. With the idea of fox sparrows still 

 dominant, Holman and Gilchrist made a long - tour into the 

 higher altitudes in search of birds of this genus, but found 

 none. 



We had been actually in or on the borders of the forest 

 region over a month before we saw or heard the Northern 

 Pileolated Woodpecker. On the last day of our stay at this 

 camp, June 15, one was seen and heard at rather close range. 



With the exception of the Douglas Ground Squirrel (Citel- 

 lus douglasi), rodents were very scarce at this last station, 

 although old signs were plentiful, especially in the house in 

 which we camped. We had visions of wood rats playing tag 

 over our prostrate forms as we slept on luxurious beds of pine 

 needles upon the floors of the deserted rooms ; but, while a 

 mouse or two had the temerity to use some of us for runways, 

 the rats seemed to have vacated the premises in our favor — not 

 only as regards the interior of the house but beneath it as well. 

 Traps were set at favorable looking openings and rat holes 

 around the outside of, and underneath, the house, but not one 

 was touched, although we caught rats in the bushes not fifty 

 yards away. 



There were several colonies of the Dusky-footed Wood Rat 

 (Neotoma fuscipes fuscipes) in the brush surrounding the 

 clearing occupied by the house, but further away fresh nests 

 were not numerous. This subspecies varies a good deal with 

 locality and climate, and in this place is much lighter in color 

 than specimens from near the type locality, with feet prac- 

 tically white. A few of Allen's Chipmunk (Eutamias senex), 

 were found here. 



Singularly enough, gophers were very scarce wherever we 

 went, fortunately for the farmers. Near this last camp was a 

 field of perhaps twenty acres, with green crops, including po- 

 tatoes, growing therein, and surrounded by dry, rocky soil, yet 

 careful search failed to reveal the presence of any gopher sign 

 whatever. Bray and Edgewood were the only stations at 

 which we found signs in any quantity and even there this was 

 restricted to small areas. The alfalfa fields in Shasta Valley 

 at a lower elevation were not, however, examined critically by 

 us, our only view of them being from the train windows, from 

 which no particular damage to the crop was noticed. 



