H.W. grimell -1915 yosemite, Calif. flew down past my shoulder to add one more insect to her al- ready well-filled bill. We watched for some moments a spotted sandpiper as it teetered on a sandy shore twenty feet away from us. june 17 visited six nests today; found the spurred towhee's nest (nest 2) empty. There were four eggs in the warbler's nest (no 3) but the parent bird again escaped unseen. I startled an adult ginnco from her nest, which contained one egg and three newly hatched young, which were covered with dark gray natal down. The nest was on the ground at the base of a bent over brush. Across the single starting stem of the little bush (pine?) needles were arched back and forth completely hiding the nest from every point of view save one, and the observer must stoop to see it from that side. It was too dark in the little cavern to enable one