Cullbreath 1942 Jun 4 3 mi Ss Trinidad, 300 ft. Humboldt Co., Cal. I first worked around through a dense thicket of young Sitka Spruces. In places there were small openings and here the ground was covered by perennial grases and ferns this also saw few Canthus and Blackberry species about. My first birds observed were Busk Tits. Approximately 75-100 bird was feeding through the tops of th Sitka Spruces. One specimen was obtained #293. Along the edges of this spruce thicket were numerous Myrica Californica bushes. The trees seem to vary; some appears to have both stamiment and staminated pistilet ament while others have only the pistilote aments. Relatively few so plants have the pistilote fruits, and it is around those that quite number of birds are observed. Robins, Varied Thrushes, Myrtle Warblers, Vickers, Song Sparrows, Fox Sparrows and War Tits are feeding on the fruits. The Varied Thrushes and Myrtle Warblers show a thick solid fat possibly from the Myrtle fruit. The fat was so solid and in such large quantities that skinning of the Varied Thrushes was impossible. In the abdomens the fat was solid packed around all the organs. Myrtle Warblers were exceptionally numerous and good number of Varied Thrushes and Song Sparrows were also present. About 11 AM a Cooper Hawk swooped low in over the Myrtle plant in search of the