Behle 1934 Bogard Ranger Station, Head of Pine Creek, Fresno Co., California Aug. 28 brush ahead of the car. As one of the Hawks came to rest on an isolated sage brush bush, that is 20 yards from any other bush, up sprang a Horned Lark and flew as fast as it could high into the air all the time uttering a rapid series of call notes or flight notes that gave me the impression it was terror stricken. It flew along unperceived by the Hawk for about 100 yards then darted straight down to a pile of lava rocks and out of sight. I immediately got out of the car and approached this rock pile soon seeing the Lark on top a rock alert and looking about intently. It noticed me as I approached and nervously started as if to fly when at long range I shot it with a charge of No. 8's. The bird is very close to O.A. rubes but with more yellow on the abdomen and flank regions. It is well along in molt. On the west side of this flat the soil is of a reddish hue much like around Red Bluff. This incident occurred at 12:15 P.M. The sky was overcast and at 12:30 started