1939 Aug.22. Dumbarton Bridge (cont.) Gulls (Calif) increasing; White Pelicans 100+; Am. Egrets 3. Aug.23. Berkeley. Nears a Tanager at 6:30 a.m. Aug. 25. Nears a Kingfisher east of house. Aug. 27. Boulder Creek. Hilton Vires most conspicuous bird. Bynx Whistlatches at Caujgjoy- Birds very quiet. Aug.28. Berkeley About 9 p.m. a series of loud call notes gmin with the regularity of a clock were heard. Luis took a flash light and followed the sound to Canyon Road where she found a female duck under an Elderberry. It stopped calling and disappeared under the bushes. Aug.31. At dawn 5:30 when the Song Spar- row was giving its first songs a flock of quail was practicing the three - rylaved calls. There were many different qualities - some full and round like the notes of an old cock; some harsh - perhaps of youngsters of this years broods. Sept. 2. Dumbarton Bridge 11-11:38 a.m. Warms, Black Turnstones 15; Least Sand- pipers (not abundant): Hudsonian Curlew 4; Willets (not abundant); Greater Yellowlegs 8 (first this fall); Avocets 30'm one group resting; N. Phalaropes 1000's.