Marshall, 1947 June 1 Wildcat Creek, Contra Costa Co., Calif. 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM chaparral camps and oaks only side brands here Eucalypti poison oak lignite open grass area soft chap. grass valley 1300 1200 laial grass 1100 open boulders 700 larval poison oak 900 larval - poison oak North Madrone live oak laurel 510 600 larval fawns below antennia tall mimulus, ticoed from life oak 500 400 fawn tall alder fir oak larvel tall 300 200 shaded elder mds tall laurel running water 180 inducory of poison oak etc. elder after fern elder pop larvel end McBride St. a few birds added on return trip. NOT much singing. Birds widely spared. Saw no junes. Drove back to San Pablo Bay marsh. Salicornia is now yellow-green and has grown several inches - Distichlis is now conspicuous around edges of Salicornis clumps. Marsh henk 4 eggs no good. Mallard - 3 eggs no good. Song Sparrows same as ever, some junes. Singing (noon) 8's. Spartia still brown (new growth not yet tall enough to show except along my transects where conspicuous. Inland Spartia along stough, bayward, Salicornis along borders - this pt. 9 1/3 mi E of Wildcat G. because banks are high. Inland Spartia grows in the stough (over) Bridge crossing San Pablo Ave. via road: San Pablo -> Riverside -> Marin -> McBride 89.