eKaye - 1933 9 mi. S, 6 mi. W, Chico, 100 ft., Butte Co., Calit. Sept. 20, 1933. were sitting normally enough, but the third drew my attention. At first I doubted it was a buzzard. It was sitting, back to the sun, with its wings fully outstretched. It was absolutely motionless. It looked for all the world like a poor mount nailed to the top of the tree. For very nearly 20 minutes it never moved, and then it moved its head, the ends of the wings began to droop, and finally, it folded its wings. No sooner did it resume a "normal" posture than the other two buzzards opened their wings to sun. Their wings were only out for five minutes. Late on in the morning I saw a house cat stalking quail. A single male quail saw it coming and climbed high on a limb of one of the fallen oaks. It began to chuck rapidly ("chuck-it, chuck it, chuck it"), and the rest of the flock of quail hurriedly, but quietly "marched" down the limbs and disappeared in the grass. The male quail continued to sound his warning until the cat gave up and went away.