Marshall, 1947 May29 Alameda Co salt marshes Calif. Driftwood Salicornia - grindelelia good yellow pusilla Alameda creek junction with fresh water habitat is all butched up however by the building of banks high enough to have common & many sparrows - also ditches with Typha - these on either side of the original Salicornia-grindelia slough. Alameda creek itself now contains abundant sewage & stink. May30 St Vincent Station Marin Co. Was going to band birds at the Typha-Saliconia junction here but find the creek has been changed to flow in its old course - this will obliterate the typha-willow area E of the RR for - will probably grow up along new stream. Might collect birds her to see if any racial habitat preference. The juvenals are going everywhere & taking long flights - Typha -> Salicornia grass along new water course -> hay field -> eucalypti, etc. They are everywhere. Did see one ad & get chased out of a salicornia territory (* see map) & it flew back into Typha. A pond at Gallinas station has willows & a singing St. Salicornia distant.