1941 Desert. March 29.(contd) At Berkeley Siskins and Aud. Warblers were ab. in our oak trees. March 30. The Purple Finch sang at 5:30 a.m. followed by House Wren; then Song Sparrow, then Luscent Warbler. Still raining. Every- time I stepped outside I heard flocks of Siskins calling. March 31. Started to the desert. Party: Mrs. McCabe, Mrs. Person, Mrs. Parsons and D - Drove via Livermore, Tracy, Gustine, Los Banos (Shorechilla & Bakersfield). It was still raining when we left but we drove between the storm belts - one in the Sierra where it was snowing, the other in the Coast range. Along the way the usual Brewer Blackbirds, Redwings, Morning Doves. East of Los Banos there was a great deal of water and we stopped a few minutes to look at the birds: Coots (ab), Pintails, Bluebills, Shovelers - perhaps other birds as there were many flying. A few White Pelicans and many Yellowlegs. Flowers near Bakersfield: Cal. poppies, lupines, phacelia, yellow primroses, colicisia (white), Melampypha all in one place. Elsewhere annnibibia, ortho car- [illegible] April. Adobe Hotel (1½ mi. N. of Bakersfield) - flocks of Goun- bel Spanwors in full song. We left Bakersfield by route 178 through the valley of the lower Kern River.