1940 began their excited chuckling before settling for the night and even later when the Fox Sparrow checked his last. The sun disappeared over the mountains soon after 3 p.m. at 2.p.m. (On the eighth there were hundreds of Robin and Varied Thrushes, a flock of Cedar Waxwings, ever so many Hermit (song phrases heard). Also flocks of Siskins, Chisteaders, juncos, many R.c. Kinglets, Heard Kingfisher. A Hermit Thrush & Dr. Forbes on the gate as I went to close it as we left. Dec. 10. Faculty Section went to Aquatic Park. Fog just disappearing. Birds seen: W. Pied-billed, Eared Grebe, Far. Cormorants 30±)6 cm. Egrets, 3 Blue Herons, Mallard 3, Canvasbacks many, Golden-eyes 15+, no males; Bluebills and Ruddy's very ab., 2 Merquarers females or young, Crests Bands invisible in two very short triple frayed feathers. Coots a few; Killdeer ab. near I.R.E., 1 Black- Turnstone. 1 Godwit in miner pool; Least, P.B. & W. Sandpipers - Ridbacks most ab., Sandpiper a few, Gulls: Western, Gull, Right. Glacous sp., Bonapartes, Pipits, Aud. Warblers, Meadowlarks, Redwinged D.b., Linnets, Crowned Sparrows. Song Sparrow, 3½ sp. Dec. 11, 12. Lady Bido went to Carmel. Tide high at Moss Landing: Saw Tires & Pied-billed Grebe, Loon (in flight dark wings against white underparts give striped appearance), Far. Cormorant, Lt. Blue Herons, Am. Egret (arrival), Snowy 1, Lesser S.Camp, Ruddy, Red-t. Merquarer (ad.male) (Clapper Rail, Coots, Willets 200 Bonaparte's Gull) Arlosp, Gulls, Yellowlegs, Along the highway: Sparrow Hawks ab., Yellow-billed Magpie - Kite at Salmon River - Bridle for Blackbirds, Juncos, Crowned Sparrows, Turkey Buzzards, Canyon Wrens. At Pacific Grove Marine Station: Brownell Cormorants, Western Glaucous, & Herring Gulls very ab., a few Calip T. Ring-bills. Short-billed Gulls, A Heerman's (some with white heads - 50 ±), Brown