R.J. Raitt 1956 Journal 98 March 30 Mo have River, 1400-1450 ft., After region, San Bernardino. After another comfortably cool night I got ca.calit. up at about 5:30 and hunted alone south of camp on the other side (south side) of the railroad in the sandy fan of a side canyon. Here the vegetation was largely Cocosote Bush but with scattered clumps of mesquite and scattered catclaw bushes. I saw several Blue-eyes around the mesquite bushes and chased a J around for a while but was unable to collect him. Verdins were common in the mesquite and I saw one Say Phoebe in a catclaw bush and collected it. On the way back to camp I saw several Brewer Blackbirds (all J's I believe) near a grassy x marshy low spot between the thickets and the railroad embankment. When I got back to camp I heard Meadowlarks calling from a grassy stretch upstream a short distance. I chased 4 of them about 500 yards up- stream but they continually flushed out of range. Eventually they flew away from the river and I lost sight of them. In the same area however a Red- shafted Flicker was feeding in the grass and I collected it. Around the base of its 6,11 were accumu- lations which looked like deposits of the alkali that covers the ground near the river. Back in camp after breakfast at about 7:15 a Scrub Jay flew through the screwbean thicket down to the river. Vic and I went after it and it flew back toward