Marshall, 1940 a. 14. Melospiza melodia Richmond & Stege, Contra Costa Co., Calif. March 1. more than a mile in every direction. The birds appeared to be paired ?'s singing from song perches. At Stege one was heard in a door yard (shrubbery-baccharis) near the bay, and a total of about 6 birds were seen in the small Tule marsh just SW of the Station. ?+ The marsh was no more than 200 x 100 yds probably less- was a dense growth of Tules or very mushy mud. Flooded at high tide (where do song sparrows go then?). 100 yds from shore was a little arm of dry ground with some salicornia. Here a pair was flushed from " - they fluttered back into the Tules. When we first arrived at the marsh, several ?'s were singing after I collected one (782) singing on a concrete structure in the center of the marsh, and chased after others, there apparently was not a single bird left there. I walked out & board walk to the arm of land mentioned above,