in the nest in the penstemon. (Before this disturbance subsided an outcry arose from the [illegible] robin's nest mingled with blue-jay screams and the robin in the towhee's audience flew to join battle with the jays. The latter soon retreated, leaving both robins sitting on the roof gradually calming down. Julio says that there were 5 eggs in the robin's nest yesterday. I can see only three, but hangs out of the window further than I care to). (Goldfinches) I finished and put up yesterday three feeding stations for goldfinches, having had none before. These contain a special mixture of small seeds recommended by Mr. Brock.(The linnets already appreciate my efforts). One small station I placed near a peach tree on which I was thinking the fruit yesterday and this morning. (This is near a bank on which grow Ceanothus and other shrubs, in one of which the gold-finches nested last year, but abandoned the nest when it was found.) I thought this might induce them to build nearby. While I was watching the station for gold- finches about noon, one [illegible] appeared and sang almost continuously for about ten minutes on another peach tree, then flew up into the one on which I had just been working, revealing the location of a nest which had just been started, probably yesterday).(This is the thirteenth kind of nest here this year that has actually been found. There are probably 15 here, counting the purple finches and the wren-tits.) (4 P.M. Julio just found a dead female quail with an egg by her side and 20 feet away, a quail nest lined with feathers that had just been destroyed. The quail was plump, with a full crop and no marks of violence. It could have been dead but a few hours). (Shortly after the junco nest was destroyed--a day or two