52 1934 Dec.23. Lunch with the Rivers. Walked alongshore. Saw flocks of Sanderlings. Also a few Brown Pelicans and Cormorants. Dance frok at night. Dec.24. Lunch with Lees at Palos Verdes. Beautiful warm weather. Dec.25. Breakfast with Lees at Palos Verdes, dinner (22 relatives) at Berthas, brie at Charles'. Dec.26. Drove to Hemet; lunch at Badna Hills (Thurber, And. Wartins), then to Wylands, Ontario, Corona, Elsinore Tansucula, Rader (no longer on map), Sage, Hemet. Green hills everywhere except Rader to Hemet - sage covered sandy hills. Dec.27. Breakfast with Ruth Lester's family in San Jacinto, then over "Palms to Pines" Highway to Palm Springs Colder. Cloudy (rain near coast). Lunch at "Loris" then thru Morgan's Pass to Riverside, Pomona To Los Angeles. No time for birds, Saw large flocks of Horned Larks on grassy fields south of Riverside) Rained all night in Los Angeles. Dec.28. Starts home. Drove out of rain - Sunny, warm. Lunch at Santa Paula. Drove up Grape Canyon and back to " " , then over to (Ojai Valley Beautiful views of whole valley from road as it dropsdown into the valley at east end (due to Ventura) then to Santa Maria (4 p.m.) Frost. Dec.29. Breakfast at San Luis Obispo, fog in lower Salinas Valley. Lunch at Salinas (Jeffery Hotel) cold wind. Stopped a few minutes at Moss Landing to look at birds. Saw one flock Bubdy Ducks (15-20), Mallards (3), Surf Scoters (20?), White- wings Scoters (a few) Golden Eyes (15-20), Eared and Pied-billed Grebes (many) Cormorants (many