a pair or two females. Light was so poor we could not tell. Other birds seen in pairs: Song Spar. rows, Brown Torkees, Bush Tits. Purple Finches were singing constantly; each time from the tip of a conifer. Jimcoos heard. Golden-crowned, and Puget Sound Sparrows in flocks and Nuttalls in pairs. Heavy rain in afternoon and all night. April 5. Cleared suddenly with north wind. Birding at Grinda. Stopped first at right of highway on San Pablo Creek. Hills covered with live oaks and small valley oaks. Later we went to the head of the lake at the Country Club. Birds seen: Ring-necked Duck, American Merganser! 5. Ruddy Ducks (two males in full plumage), Mallards; Costs (4); Quail, Buzzard, Redtail (2), Cooper Morning Dove band Hawks (among trees, then sailing); Calif. Woodpecker, Redbr. Willard and Nuttall, Flicker (ab.); Coast Jay (1), Sapsucker Calif Jay (15-20); Black Phoebe (nest in conduit supported by wire; Western Flycatcher; Titmouse (very ab.); Wren-tit, Vagris Wren, Hermit Thrush?; Warbling Vireo (pair seen); Ruby-crowned Kinglet (2 singing); Bleeker billed Nuttall's (male feeding female); Hummingbird (Anna whistle heard) Meadowlark; Linnet, Purple Finch, Gb. Goldfinch, Lutescent and Audubon Warbler (full plumage); Brown and Spotted Towhee, Golden-crowned and White- crowned Sparrow (sp.?); Song Sparrow, Violet, Green Swallow (over lake 2) 39 species.