W.J.Francis 1963. 241. California Quail Oct.3. Hastings Reservation, Monterey County nothing to distinguish adults from this year's young. 0809. Heard considerable commotion of quail calls in the brush on willow side below the weather station, near my observation point. Oct.4. Hastings Reservation Monterey County 0840. While checking the traps, I flushed several groups of quail, at the edge of the brushy hill- side and in the open field be- tween the Davis land White houses. all told I estimated at least 60 birds (last winter there were only 16 certain, 19 maximum, in this area). Quail have apparently not gone near the traps, being able to find plenty of food and water elsewhere; yet they ate readily the bait grain remaining on the ground where I had re- moved the trap in front of the White house. At the large trap just upstream from the Bridge near the gate, bait is being eaten little if at all - yet it is located in proximity to excellent cover, water, dust-baths, and in