smaller than a Curlew and had a straight bill. The color- atation was about that of the Cur- lew, as best as I could see. Sept 30. Day's Phoebe first seen today I think that this individual bird has returned to this place for three consecutive years at least. Oct-16. Judging from the broadly strip- ed black and white head and rufous belly of a Nuthatch I saw at the hill today, I think the bird I saw was a Canada Nuthatch. This is the first Nuthatch I have seen in the valley. It was entirely earless and was almost caught by hand. It was searching the posts and pickets of the fences and the walls of the buildings at the sandhill.