Ceres July 1929. I heard and saw a Lazuli Bunting just above the round house - a male in full plumage. Near the hotel a Black-headed Grosbeak was singing. In the afternoon we drove up to Big Bend about three miles up the river where there is a rangers cabin and beautiful camp ground. A Wood Pewee flew out from its nest, caught some thing and settled down again on its nest in plain sight on a bare branch of a Jeffrey pine. A mountain song sparrow sang from a thicket on the river bank. Tanagers there also. July 14. The evening Grosbeaks alight in the tops of the red firs north of the hotel, give their loud calls - "Punk" or "Punks,-perk perks", then fly toward the kitchen yard calling "tweet-tweet" something like a gold finch. There they alight in the choke-cherry bushes on the embankment or on the telegraph wires and watch till the yard is clear then drop to the ground where they feed silently. Before they leave they give their loud calls again "Punk" - "Punk" and grrt-gr sometimes, then fly into the fir trees. I couldnt find that they went to any nest. Sometimes they flew over the snow sheds and into the trees behind and I heard one once distance beyond the round house above the R.R. track. I should say they stayed within a circle of 1/2 mile diameter, with hotel at center. At 1 p.m. a Sierra Nevada Thrush sang several times in the fir trees near the hotel. July 15. We left Ceres about 9 a.m. Weather has been beautiful all the time - a good breeze - sometimes too cool. Sunshine very brilliant. Too many flies. Mosquitoes near iron spring. Trains very noisy all night. Full list of birds on next page. Saw no hawks or wood- peckers though I heard the flicker once and possibly the white-headed woodpecker once. A young Baldwing Grouse