6 ELTHE AUDUBON BULL Haley 
open top touring car, driving back to the railroad at Fresno. We identified 
eleven species of birds during those two days, making the most of the hour 
of daylight after getting ourselves settled in a log cabin at Camp Curry, 
and ef the time from the many short stops along the way. In Yosemite 
Valley we saw many blue-fronted jays, fairly large numbers of western 
robins, house finches, and several eastern sparrow hawks. We failed to 
identify a female warbler feeding a young bird, but had better luck with 
the western wood pewee. 
While driving through Yosemite we saw western meadowlark, and Walt 
spied a pair of California woodpeckers on top of a telephone pole during 
one of our “ten minute stops” along the way. Others we saw were Cali- 
fornia purple finch, Thurber’s junco, California yellow warbler and Audubon 
warbler. We had lunch on the patio of Big Tree Lodge in the midst of 
the Mariposa grove of big trees. While we were eating our dessert a male 
western tanager flew in to make our acquaintance. The joy of this en- 
counter somewhat took away the edge of our disappointment in not seeing 
more of the ninety-four species listed as either resident or summer visitants 
on the check list of birds from the “Bulletin on Birds of Yosemite” by 
M. E. Beatty and C. A. Harwell. This passing disappointment was com- 
pletely forgotten in anticipation of seeing new birds in the Los Angeles 
region. 
Here we observed birds in four different areas: Occidental College 
campus, Mt. Wilson State Park, Griffith Park (a city park in Los Angeles), 
and in Santa Monica. 
Alone I sallied forth to visit Occidental College campus of 110 acres, 
consisting of shrubbery, parking lots, lawns, trees, open hill country, ravine, 
fountain and extensive watering system. It was July 11, 8 A.M., tempera- 
ture 70°, little wind and no smog. I heard all kinds of bird voices around 
me and became over-anxious about actually finding out what made them. 
The birds occurring in largest numbers were: house finch, California jay, 
California brown towhee, English sparrow, western mocking-bird, black- 
chinned hummingbird, Brewer’s blackbird and dove. A pair of doves flew 
over me as I was sitting in the shade of a live oak. We had seen so many 
doves as we rode through the country. Quite suddenly it occurred to me 
to consult “Peterson” and read about doves. I found there were two that 
I should especially look for in addition to the western mourning dove—the 
Chinese spotted dove and the ringed turtle dove, both introduced to this 
area. I soon found a Chinese spotted dove but was never lucky enough 
during my stay to locate a ringed turtle dove. Others seen this morning 
were: ash-throated flycatcher, black-headed grosbeak, black phoebe, San 
Diego ‘titmouse, red-shafted flicker, Thurber’s junco, California thrasher 
and California quail. One early morning a few days later my daughter 
and I drove through this campus and came upon several families of Cali- 
fornia quail. We sat in the car watching their antics and also had a fine 
view of a California thrasher that hopped out to share their company. He 
had played hide and seek with me several times the other day and I felt 
happy to have at last caught him unaware. 
