Banks 1959 Journal 27 June 26 2½ mi N Parksville, Vancouver Island, B.C. - This is a field, mostly grass, with thistle and other weeds, about knee-high, and scattered cedars, right along the highway. It's perhaps 500 x 200 yds. Got 2 White-throats and 1 garter snake : Birds seen here or nearby : Alder Flycatcher Winter Wren Song Sparrow Flycatcher Robin Calif. Junco Cedar Waxwing Killdeer Chipping Sparrow Olive-backed Thrush Rufous-sided Towhee Goldfinch (Amer.) Barn Swallow. 1½ mi N, 2 mi W French Creek, Vancouver Is., B.C. Drove on here, about 2 mi farther on the road, n of the last locality. New birds here were : Orange-Crowned Warbler Tolmie Warbler Mourning Dove (1) Lazuli Bunting (head) Raven Jubilee Falls Provincial Park, Vancouver Is., B.C. As I got about 3 mi inland on return to camp, normally a series of showers. At camp, however, it had barely sprinkled. About 7 pm, it started to rain, and altho there has been some sun and one 5 min. break, it has rained constantly until now, 4:10 pm. I've stuffed all birds + taken care of all snakes. Birds seen here in the park today : Robin, Steller Jay, Tolmie Warbler, Varied Thrush (sp.) Band-tailed Pigeon, Chestnut-backed Chickadee.