I again started an Ardea herodias. A little beyond & schwend's and near the ford where the stage crosses I saw a Colaptes cafer in the trees and heard it calling. A beryle alcyon alighted in a nearby tree and the colaptes cafer dropt it out. Just before reaching Idlewild I came on another beryle alcyon. They seem to have a habit of raising the crest when alarmed. While trying to stalk the kingfisher I heard a jay scolding me overhead in a tall redwood, but I could not see him. No other birds were seen in the redwoods. After getting pretty high up in the cleared land I encountered a noisy Aphelocoma californica. A few small finches were seen in the brush above up to the school- house, also a couple of Cathartes aura. At the schoolhouse I took the road to the lighthouse, a distance of three or four miles devoid of trees. On the bare grassy hills close to the school- house I saw quite a number of Sturnella magna and a pair of Euphagus cyanocephalus. Shot one in moult. Quite a bit lower down towards the coast I came across a small band of Lophortyx californicus on a culvert and in a dry creek bottom. Got a male in moult. Close by two or three [illegible] sparrowian in flight were seen; alighting on bushes on steep hill side. The quail flew up into a steep brushy hillside and twice when I passed a certain spot a cock called each time and I heard the others carrying on a low conversation. Still further down this little canyon I startled a flock of Sturnella magna from a steep grassy hillside. I also saw a swallow, species?. Near a Swiss dairy at the end of the hilly part of the creek I saw a few Sturnella magna and a Cathartes aura sailing low over a field. On a wind-swept grassy plain near the coast I ran on to the same big flock of Otocoris alpestis I saw yesterday. They wind blew so strongly that they were crouching in the grass. One Oryzomus