An Ardea herodias flew up from a rocky headland a little ways ahead of me, when I was about a mile north of the mouth of the Little Sur. The coast had not become very rocky and car travelling so I turned to go back. I noted a cormorant in the water close to the rocks. Lagoon of Little Sur River; 12:30 P.M. Cleared up pretty well. There were quite a number of black birds on driftwood set in the lagoon, the wood being stranded. Five or six Oxyechus vociferus occupied a marshy meadow just north of the lagoon. Took one. I worked along the north side of the river in the lupine and willows. There were lots of small birds - finches, etc., but I recognized nothing positively. Along the banks of the river, which at this season are sand and rock and gravel, I ran on to another flock of six or eight Oxyechus vociferus. A beryle alcyon came by calling in the usual manner. As I went up stream I encountered more Oxyechus vociferus. Of course they were in the bare gravel and sand. They have the habit of bobbing the fore part of the body up and down when watching a person just after alighting. They call quite a lot as they fly and take flight. Proceeding up the river in the wooded portions, I saw a couple of bathartes aura (?) sailing high above the mountains. On a little sandy beach I came across a pair of Lophortyx californicus and their young; all, however, got into the brush before I had a good opportunity to shoot. A little ways above I heard a beryle alcyon calling just after shot, and saw it alighting on the limb of a tree over the river. When quite a ways up the river near Gschwend's place an Ardea herodias flew up from the water, going up stream. A ways farther up