Maghew 1947 June 7 California Quail 1. Strawberry Canyon, U.C. campus, Alameda Co., Calif. At 9:25 A.M. one σ & one ♀ were seen slowly climbing the side of a hill. They use their legs alternately, like a man. The ♀ was following the σ? Woolsey Canyon, Alameda Co., Calif. at 10:36 A.M. a ♀ was flushed from her nest in the side of a dry stream bed. It was rather well concealed by vegetation, chiefly poison oak. The nest was lined with dried grass stems. It was about 6 inches in diameter, in a depression in the ground. The nest contained 5 blunt-pointed eggs about 1½" long & very thick at one end. The eggs were white with light brown spots over it, especially at the point of the large end. Soapweed & poison oak were the main plants concealing the nest, but there was also a good deal of Diplacus growing near it. Nov. 6 Strawberry Canyon, U.C. campus, Alameda Co., Calif. A search was made on the north slope of the canyon below the cyclotron most of the afternoon, but no quail were seen or heard. Nov. 15 Today a search was made up & down the entire north slope of the canyon in suitable quail territory. Two birds were flushed, but flew into a thicket around a projection of land and disappeared. Other than this, no quail were seen. Nov. 19 This morning was spent wandering along near strawberry creek up in the canyon, but no