Cogswell 1950 Journal 7 Apr. 1-3 Pacific Grove, Monterey Co., Calif. - Spent these 3 days at Regional Conference of the National Audubon Society, leading large groups of people on field trips to Point Lobos State Park on the 2nd, and to Elkhorn Slough in the am on the 3rd. No detailed notes could be taken under these circumstances; but the bird species encountered are entered in my personal roll book record. Outstanding ones were 8 Black Oyster-catchers, 1 Creeper, several Pelicans (Digon, Suitability), and numbers of Western Gulls and a handful of Pelagic Cormorants at Pt. Lobos. None seems to be nesting as yet there, except possibly the crevice-inhabiters. Apr. 3 At Elkhorn Slough we covered only the N arm from the mouth to above the causeway & S end near of old mouth. On the beach at this latter site close to base of the dunes & well above but did not catalog any recent high tides, I obtained parts of the skeleton of a porpoise (Lagenorhynchus obliquidus) (most of skull, a few vertebrae, 1 humerus). This animal I knew had been there since last July (see 1949 Journal p. 47), at which time I was not equipped to bring it in. Now it was in remnants & partly covered with sand. Birds worthy of special mention at Elkhorn were: Oldsquaw, 12; Lesser Scamp, 40+, 34; Western Grebe, 15+; Black Brant; 14 (see sp. unit); Long-billed Curlew - 4+; Hudsonian Curlew - 1; Red-bibbed Sandpiper - 2+ (only). Apr. 4 Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. - At M.V.Z. this a.m. Dr. Benson says the porpoise is probably a Delphinus gillii (see above). I gave it to him for accession & presumably he will give it his no.