D. Strong 1925 opy) /93 brush areas. Slept all afternoon at Miss Hamiltons, read this evening. Saw many Jack rabbits (one flock of six in a stubble field) Cottontails and Quail. Many Kingbirds, Linnets, and other small birds. Simpson, Miss H.'s hired man, says Huey gives 150 as the number of bird species actually on the ranch! This sounds rather like the report of Mark Twain's death. return to San Antonio del mar. June 12, 1925. Up early and drove along the coast route thru San Telmo and Colnett (of evil fame, for the colony estab. there withstood six successive years of drouth only to be completely washed out the seventh by a flood !) valleys. Thence to San Antonio del Mar. Had lunch. Spent the afternoon exploring for Indian living sites, chiefly up a small branch of San Antonio Canyon -- where there are two or three "tinajas" or springs. There are ideal caves in the crumbling sedimentary rocks, also beds of pleistocene oyster shell. Dug in the caves but aside from shells and a little charcoal found noth- ing. A few surface potsherds were picked up. Why such ideal rock shelters should have little or no human debris seems very strange. After vainly looking for another cave in the main canyon, and exploring the old copper mine, we drove down to the beach. Here we found small