W. J. Francis 1964. California Quail March 5. Hastings Reservation, Monterey County. 1120. In the second canyon to the left up the creek, heard many low notes typical of a covey in the brush on the SE facing Chaparral slope, near the creek bed. No response to artificial quail call. 1135 About 10 feet further down the canyon saw several quail retreating into the chaparral. 1202 Probably the same covey, 11 birds counted, crossed the grassy flat near the juncture of the two canyons and ran up toward the oak woodland on the south side. No tendency to pairing noted - generally 88 were in groups slightly separated from 99, 3 or 4 to a group, some singles. 1227. Covey of 18 birds 'feeding on lawn directly in front of Bell house, closely grouped as pairing or autagnaisin'. 5-6 other birds between here and the creek bed. 1232 Four birds flushed from creek bed & flew to shrub at the edge of hillside woodland; 21 birds counted on lawn for minimum total of 25 in this covey. 1545. 3, then 5 more, quail flushed from the hillside as I was re-traiting trap south of the Bell house, and flew down toward the creek bed.