1948 Troglodytes aedon Dec.29 Dume Point, Los Angeles Co., Calif. - I seen well in short scrubby (lupine?) bushes at top of sea cliff on outermost part of point. It was giving the same call note which I just learned on the 27th at Los Angles : a rasping bzeeee, similar in duration to a gnatcatchers (blue-gray) note but lower pitched, harsher, - not so petu- lant. Dec.30-5 end of Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo Co., Calif. I seen (or heard giving same call) in sparse scrub growth on slope of high dunes between bay & open ocean beach. 1949 Jan.30 Marin Co. Park at Stinson Beach, Marin Co., Calif. The same "bzeeee" call note described on Dec.29 was heard several times from brush piles & vines around base of trees. I finally located the bird and saw it give the call once - it was a House Wren all right & in this area, behaving much like those that winter at San Gabriel River Wildlife Sanctuary in Southern California - keeping close to the ground in the now nearly leafless tangle. [Jan.31 - I note that neither avifuna # 27 nor # 18 mention any winter records for this sp. from Marin Co. & "arrival" is usually in late March]