La Grulla (cont) of turkey mullein and many other weeds. I looked in many crops and found nearly all filled with a small legume whose identity I never could ascertain. The plants were no longer visible but the seeds apparently were everywhere. Some contained Turkey mullein seeds and a few had a hint of greenery - surprisingly little considering that early rains had raised a fine lawn of sprouted grass. The foxtails were just sprouting - jinkweed size still. The year 1978 apparently is one of the real boom years in quail numbers. Everyone remarked on this, his crops and lots of them. This was further reflected in the amazing age ratio - 608 young per 100 adults, based on a sample of 333! In all the year I have fowled with Cal quail this is by far the highest crop of young I ever have seen. See next page for details based on birds killed by the parties I hunted with, and on Dec 2 on all the birds taken by La Grulla hunters (I talked to them on the back porch). Of considerable interest to me was the unusually low representation of adult males in the population. Adult females outnumbered adult males 29 to 18 (or 100:62). In the De Millar's data from Shandon there is a tendency for adult males to exceed adult females in increasing