May 18, 1940 Belle Passe 1:30 to 4:00 p.m. 85° No wind. Beginning to get hazy. Brewer's Blackbird Meadowlark Robin Killdeer Flicker Valley Quail Green-backed Goldfinch Oregon Towhee Chipping Sparrow Barn Swallow Willow Goldfinch Mountain Quail Mourning Dove Russet-backed Thrush Pileolated Warbler Winter Wren Warbling Vireo Western Evening Grosbeak Seattle Wren California Yellow Warbler Oregon Chickadee Cassin Vireo Song Sparrow Golden-crowned Kinglet Lewis Woodpecker Sparrow Hawk Shufeldt's Junco Pigmy Nuthatch ??? Crow Wilson Snipe Nighthawk Violet-green Swallow Lutescent Warbler California Jay As I was walking across the pasture I heard a loud commotion in a Hazel bush. As I turned that way, two birds came bursting out of the shrub. The first was a large blue and gray or white bird; the second a Robin. The Robin chased the bird away from the vicinity even though it was larger than the Robin. I went over to the Hazel bush and found the Robin's nest with one egg broken and partly eaten; the yolk was broken. There was just one egg in the nest. The nest was 6½ feet high.) Later I saw the blue and gray or white bird and from the general view of it I decided that it was a California Jay. I studied a new bird today--Small, about the size of a very small Chipping Sparrow--yellow throat patch, two equal brown-black plates on breast. A pair of white or gray, elongated and pointed ovals near the tip of the tail on the underside: .. The bill was small but seemed to be flat and wide like a flycatcher's. I am not sure but I think that there were whiskers at the base of the bill. It perched on a limb and dashed out for a bug, and then came back to the same big limb, although on a different small branch. I was only about five or six feet away from it for a whole two minutes. Dark wings. This bird has me worried very much as I am unable to find a record of it in Birds of America or in Eliot's book Birds of the Pacific Coast. It should be a flycatcher or a kingbird from the general body shape. Fred W. B.M.