1929 Sept. 16-22 - Cooler. Foggy at night till Sept. 20 thin clear. Bassat-backed Thrush heard Sept. 19, 20. Sept. 23. Drove via Pleasanton & Emery, Mission San Jose to Dumbarton Bridge thru home via San Mateo Bridge, Airport, Alameda Tube. High tide so water birds could not be seen to advantage but saw about 20 Caspian Terns, many Lt. Blue Herons, Phalaropes, Sandpipers, a few ducks. Waders size of B&F Plows were collected on spit near the San Mateo Bridge - packed close together waiting for tide to recede. Land birds seen - a few finchets, many Barn Swallows (at Dumbarton Bridge), Turkey Vultures, Sparrow Hawks, B.-Blackbirds. Sept. 23. Fox Sparrow was calling in early morning. Sept. 25. Fox Sparrow heard again and Intermediate Sparrows singing up the hill. Bassat-backed Thrush still here. Cool nights, warm in middle of day. No hot weather so far this September. Sept. 26. Thrasher imitated Olive-sided Flycatcher "a-pee-hee" Sept. 27. Heard Ruli-crowned Kinglet - first time. Sept. 28. Saw two Goldica-crowned Sparrows - blue song twice the first two notes of song. (Linforth's garden) Sept. 29 - Thrasher imitated Olive-sided Flycatcher again. Alarm note of a wren heard- Oct. 1. Heard notes of Hermit Thrush very distinctly. Oct. 2. Hermannia full out way - had almost white- Oct. 4. Spent a few minutes about 8 a.m. on the campus with Miss Wythe listening to the White-crowned Sparrows - the song she identifies as that of the newly named "pergulus" - the migrating Nuttall. The song was something like this: Saw many Audubon Warblers in the maples at Bancroft & Olbarring. Oct. 7. Heard notes of Varied Thrush in woods east of house - low-pitched "chuck" and quaver.