38 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



During the month of May, 1914, I was camped on the Mc- 

 Kenzie river about two miles below the little town of Vicia, and 

 on the 18th I caught one of these lemmings in a mouse trap 

 baited with oatmeal. The trap was set for shrews, and was 

 placed among the rocks at the side of a small stream where it 

 flows through a dense forest of spruce and fir timber. At this 

 place both banks of the stream were lined with an almost im- 

 penetrable jungle of salmon-berry bushes and sword fern, where 

 jumping mice and deer mice, as well as several species of shrews 

 were collected. 



NOTES FROM THE CLACKAMAS AND COLLIWASH RIVERS. 



Mr. Ben S. Patton, deputy game warden of Estacada, reports 

 that on a trip up the Clackamas and Colliwash rivers, which he 

 made between December 9 and December 15, he saw elk tracks 

 in the snow. On the Colliwash there was six inches of snow, and 

 he saw where a band of timber wolves were hunting. He and 

 Mr. Hugh Mendenhall caught one of the wolves in a trap. They 

 also saw where another wolf had been caught in a trap, but noth- 

 ing was left except the foot. 



A few years ago deer were common in this locality, but now 

 there are comparatively few because of the wolves. 



MUSKRATS DRIVEN OUT. 



Mr. F. H. Fawcett of Narrows, Oregon, reports that on 

 January 27 he saw two muskrats in the streets at Narrows. Some 

 of these animals are also taking refuge in the dwellings about 

 Malheur lake, and have been seen out in the sage brush several 

 miles from water. Mr. Fawcett says that the winter has been 

 very cold, the ice is thick on the lake and he thinks the shallow 

 portions of the lake are frozen to the bottom, so the ra*s have 

 been forced to move out on account of food supply. 



Malheur lake is the best trapping ground in Oregon for musk- 

 rats. During the winter of 1913 and 1914, 10,250 of these were 

 trapped about the lake. 



