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Marshall, 1947
Melospiza
135.
Collections Sept Oct '47
Richardson Bay, Marin Co. Calif.
(See Tamalpais quadrangle)
Alto
Mill Valley
3780 here bds were going back & forth from Salicornia-Spartina along the slough to poison oak & Foeniculum 10 yds away.
Power Plant
3781 Salicornia few bds. here Salicornia low & dry.
School
3782-3783 Pure Spartina in area where got covered at high-tide.
Richardson Bay
Several pairs here in area of Spartina 50 yds wide.
Many bds seen along the slough - a belt of Spartina 10 yds. then Gnidelia & Salicornia.
Little side sloughs have some Spartina in bottoms,
Gnidelia on banks,
Salicornia on flats.
Willows
Spartina
Golden Gate Bridge
Good pure salt habitat, yet on edges,
birds go into brush piles, poison oak,
willow, Conium, etc. The birds on
edges seem to be milling around in (make they don't breed here),
groups & those out in pure salt marsh
stationary.