Memmler 1942 43 Itinerary April 9, muddy creek, 750 ft., Charles Canyon, Monterey Co., Calif. afternoon. We went to the cut hay barn on the Johnson Bros. farm. The barn is divided into four compartments. Each one of these has a loft about 3 1/2 ft. wide and 12 ft. long. These are reached by ladders on the outside of the barn. Each of the four has a door from the outside next to the ladder. The doors have holes cut in them which look as though they were specially built to accommodate Barn owls. Three of the four platforms had a layer of cut hay about a ft. or more deep. In and on these were found pellets. There were eggs on 3 of the platforms. The first had 7 eggs, the second 8 eggs and the third 4 eggs. The eggs were cream-white and about 1 1/2" long. In the fourth barn we found no hay on the platforms and a dead owl on the hay in the barn proper. In the second barn the owl flew in while we were there and perched in the corner of the barn next to the roof as long as we were there. We were directed to the chopped-hay barn by one of the five Johnson Bros., who own the Ranch, Mr. Gottlieb Johnson. He also told Mrs. Grinnell that when