aprs. 1935 Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. October 20, one of us "spooked" or "disturbed" the nests while the other stood by with a gun to shoot any specimens which might emerge. However our search was fruitless and at 2:45 we left for Berkeley, after picking up the two gopher sets we had left out. Nothing was in them. We arrived in Berkeley at 4:30 P.M. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley Nov. 1, While watching a Townsend warbler, 2 ruby-crowned kinglets + several Audubon warblers foraging in the live oak tree just outside my office window on the southwest side of the Life Sciences Bldg., I was astonished to see a red-shafted flicker fly up to and perch on the border of one of the fluted columns or pilasters. The bird clung to the face of this cement column for a space of ± 2 min. then shifted upward probing + pecking on ledges + into crevices until it reached the face of one of the "cement" cows where, the surface too slippery, it lost its hold, fluttered downward, then up