Cogswell 1949 Journal 139 Dec.21- Santa monica - Long Beach - Pasadena, L.A., Calif. (cont.) O.M. my to Mrs. Stultz, director of the sanctuary. The usual group of 7-8 am. Egrets and 15-20 Snowy Egrets was gathered in the Allis farm pasture N of Bellisser Road as we passed. The nearby marsh has been thoroughly drained, however. Very few Chinese Spotted Doves were noted enroute today. Dec. 22 Glendora, Los Angeles Co., Calif. This a.m. I contacted J.D. Sinclair, Forester in charge, and Jerome Horton, Botanist, at the Glendora field quarters (U.S. Forestry Service) of the San Dimas Experimental Forest. With suggestions from them 2 maps supplied by Horton we drove up Big Dalton Canyon and along the ridge E of it to look at chaparral areas, which I will undertake bird population studies in the spring. An area at the head of Keril Canyon, burned over in 1947 and nearby sm. of oak-cesotius chaparral burned areas, seemed suitable there. Few birds were active here in early p.m. We then drove on northward along the road past the entrance to Tanbark Flats (field headquarters of the Experimental Forest) and out onto the Glendora Mountain Road, coming back into the Experimental Forest again, on the Monroe Ranch Trail, which is here on the ridge between Little Dalton & Monroe Canyons. Horton has mapped 4 to 6 types of chaparral in