Arnold 1937 Primitive Area - Berkeley Calif. Dec. 20, this is responsible for the new growth which is just beginning to come out all at once. Probably the appearance of these worms was the reason for my seeing Black-throated Gray Warblers and a Downy Woodpecker on this tree earlier in the season. At 12:55 we saw three Golden- crowned Kinglets foraging among the cypress trees at the top of Monument Hill. Dr. Miller identified them first by their fit-fit-fit-fit notes (sounding, when put together, like a squeaking hinge) These were foraging among the needles and twigs. One of them spent a minute or so hammering at something in the crotch of a small twig. I do not know what they were after. There was a Ruby-crowned Kinglet among them but this presently flew down into the brush on the north side of Monument Hill. It could be distinguished by its metallic sequestration note. At 1:10 we saw a Calif. Jay on "Pine Point" a Hermit Thrush was seen to fly from the base of "Pine Point" into the thicket of brush on the