W.J. Francis 1963 California Quail July 16. Strawberry Canyon, Alameda County. 1500. As I entered the pen at the Be- havior Lab, there was one ♂ in "guard" position in B-9, and another ♂ in A-9. 1505 The B-9 ♂ preened and I saw at least one chick nearby - then after 1 minute they went into weedy cover. 1510 (estimated time; watch stopped - I set it ahead and rewound - sub- sequent times today's notes subject to correction). I sounded "assembly Call" an artificial call. An an- swer was given from very close, then a ♂ flew to the fence in area A-1 as a more distant assembly Call was given. 1517 ♂3 ♂ gave assembly call from water-hole then flew to perch on top of instrument shelter and repeated it - this is probably same ♂ seen in A-1 just before. 1520 ♂ with chickens in A-6 as ♂ ♂3 and ♀ 05 drank at the water-hole. The former is green - with undetermined number of chicks scattered around; I counted only 5 but others were in the weeds. 1523 Another pair with two larger chicks in B-8, moved behind the B-7 eucalyptus. 1527 The ♂ of this