Kaye - 1933 9 mi. S, 6 mi. W, Chico, 100; Butte Co., Calif. Sept. 20, 1933. There were about eighteen quail in the flock. That was while we were still hunting deer. Still later in the day - in the latter part of the afternoon I got to make another interesting bird observa- tion. Ward and I were back in the thick, tall timber, a little further back from where I saw the buzzards this morning. We frightened about 20 buzzards out of a dead tree. All the grass and grape at the base of this tree was painted white with droppings. Also all the ground about was strewn with feathers. Ap- parently the birds had done much molting in this tree. Contour, tail and wing feathers were all around. We were at this time out setting steel traps in the trails leading through the brush, in our deer hunting grounds. Earlier in the day we had looked at our steel traps along Perkins' lake, and had caught only a ground squirrel. We hunted deer after setting the afternoon traps, but didn't get