76, 8 1939 journal 57 Santa Cruz Island, 25 mi W of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Co. California 21 Mar pool investigation . There were anemone, al pacific sea urchin, mussels everywhere. The beach was beautiful white sand at Tompkins Bay. There were hundreds of abalone shells and charcoal left from the Chumash Indians which were extinguished by the Spanish from the island and brought to mainland when they succumbed to White man's disease. On the beach we found turtle tracks leading from the water to 25 yds inland when they turned around at heated back to water. By size it may have been a green or a loggerhead. Anacapa Island to the S is a breeding site for Brown Pelicans. At the tide pool I collected an ugly shell of Castrosia undosa. Ken found a beautiful conch with a beautiful powdered surface. Today, we traveled into Forney Cove (a 2 hr drive). We left the station at 9:00 am we traveled along the Bridge road. Saw Golden Eagle soaring with 2 Northern Ravens, many American Kestrels (?^20). Saw a pair of Kestrels perched on a telephone pole. Along the route I saw dry scrub and Rufus - Crowned Sparrows. Rufous are large Brown Towhee-erger. The habitat of the sparrows was dry stream bed with Mimulus, Baccharis, Pepper Tree, Scorpion bush was blooming lavender with tall multiple forest affairs), California Sage, and Scrub Oak. Hu