Marshall, 1940 Melospiza melodia Solano Co., Calif. April 7 abundant than I have ever seen them before. Were in a very luxuriant growth of baccharis, grindelia, etc. Would squeek four or five out of a bush at once. A pair almost every ten yards. Several taken also from a very tall stand of Salicornia on the highway nearer Vallejo. The rest of the day we took series from salt marshes (salicornia, tules, grindelia) at Vallejo marsh (on the southern end of town), South-ampton Bay marsh, marsh at the Benicia arsenal on Carcinez Straits, and the marsh at the mouth of Sulphue S springs Valley. Next we drove about three miles up Sulphur Springs Valley and took some at the fresh water marsh at the Benicia reservoir, called Lake Herman. These birds were in reeds and willows. Had a swell supper at the Stoner's, and returned via Greyhound after putting on some of Emerson's dry clothes. We didn't find any real maxillaris at all. Contra Costa and Solano counties, Calif. May 13 This time, took a university car, #191 and with Stone collected riparian ss from Rodeo Creek watershed to the Green Valley watershed at Cordelia. Several were taken in willows at various points along Rodeo Creek were very abundant at one point about 2 miles east of Rodeo, where two forks of the creek met in a broad valley with a large tract of willows. Juvinals out and around. Next stop was Canada del Cierbo, a cnyon opening into the town of Selby, where the chemical plant is located. About a mile up the walley from the bay there is a reservoir with a largetract of willows and cattails, in which song sparrows were abunlant. Also russet-backed thrushes, Allen hummers, grosbeaks, etc. A fine cddecting place. Lake herman, where we next stopped was an almost identical situation, but here gouldi, rather than santaecrucis were in abundance. A bird was taken from a patch of willow about three mil es up the Green Valley watershed north of Codelia. We stopped right in Cordelia when we heard some ss singing in the fresh water marshe there at the mouth of Green Valley Creek. We collected four. Then we drove south three miles onto the slt marsh and took 6 from the dense population there in the tules. The weather was fair; clear but quite windy.