Marshall, 1940 a 11. Melospiza melodia Boni & Isabel Pt., Contra Costa Co., Calif. found in Salicornia then Feb. 24. in the shrubbery on the bay side of the embankment. Chatti collected a pair & we each took a single bird (770-773). The birds were very abundant, I should say 1 pair to every 25 or 30 yards of growth along the slough. I collected a pair at the west edge of the R.R. embankment just W of El Cerrito (knoll). The ♂ 774 was singing from a wire 10' above gnd; the ♀ was taken in a baccharis just under this perch. The area here was wet salicornia marsh & weeds along the R.R. bank. About 3 pairs only were seen & in the Salicornia W of the R.R. bank. They would fly across the R.R. & back to the shrubby-lined sloughs.