455 of the creek side and I soon coming to the nest-- and its four fresh eggs-- flesh in the bark. The rim of the nest was of moss, giving a pretty effect. I should like to see at J.W. Pinsons. Fisher collected a Darrow's Chickadee. We saw nothing particularly new in birds. On the road home between Redwood and Palo Alto Cal Purple Finches were singing from the tops of pines and oaks-- like a scale-- This ended the day--