458 SUNDAY JUNE 9. Jen and I drove to Slippery Ford (Sugar Loaf Hotel) this forenoon. At Dunkum's I found a Louisiana Tanager's nest building. Heard a Winter Wren and a Russet-backed Thrush in the gulch near Pacific. Near Suger Loaf I shot a Sparrow Hawk off of a 150-ft. fir tree and later climbed the tree after him. MONDAY JUNE 10. Taylor and I were out on the hill this morning. Birds were fairly plentiful. The country about Sugar Loaf is precipitous in general, the hill sides being given to the usual timber, with black oaks intermixed. Shot a male Mt. Chickadee and then found its nest in the top of a little oak snag six feet up. The female was very persistent remaining in the hole and hissing like a snake. The nest contained small young. Mrs. Meigs found a Calaveras Warbler's nest on the side of a ravine, placed under a deer- brush and beneath the leaves. This we collected with its five eggs and the female parent. Eggs advanced in incubation. Purple Finches and male tanagers abundant near the house. Tanagers espec- ially were seen abundantly through the woods, all that were noticed being males. TUESDAY JUNE 11. This morning Taylor and I went to Brown- ell's and up to the top of Peavine Ridge.,- a hard climb. No particularly new birds seen. Shot a fe- ma le Olive-sided Flycatcher near Cedar Rock, while it was sitting in a low limb of an oak. The bird contained a very handsome egg about to be laid, but unfortunately it was broken in skinning the bird. At Brownell's a pair of Barn Swallows had a nest inside the barn. We noted the Lazuli Bunting al- m ost up to Brownell's. California and Cassin's Finches were shot in this vicinity. From Brown- ell's a trail lead up through quite an extensive pasture to a sort of plateau, which was finely covered with large timber. From this it was a long, abrupt ascent to the top but we made it and found a thick growth of Ceanothus cordulatus,