General Account. Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. - Fallon, Churchill Co., Nevada. May 9, 1941. Left Berkeley about 9 a.m. Drove to Sacramento, then over the Donner Pass via Auburn, Norden, etc. Con- tinued on to Fallon, Churchill Co., Nevada. A few miles West of Fallon, stopped at some ponds by the road, and in the middle of this dry land we noted numerous aquatic birds - eared grebes in breeding plumage, gadwall, pintail, cinnamon Teal, baldpate, redhead, snoret, silt, and others. Went on to Fallon, and looked up Ray Alcon, May 10. Spent the night at his ranch. Next morning he took Sibley and I to Big Soda Lake, 6 mi. N.W. of Fallon. I took a Wilson Phalarope, and Alcon shot a sandpiper, the first record of this species for the state. We left Fallon, and drove east on U.S. 50. Made camp in the pinion - juniper belt about 35 mi. N.E. of Ely, Nevada. May 11. Drove across the Great Salt Lake Desert to Salt Lake City, Utah, arriving there about noon. Proceeded from Salt Lake through Wyoming to Medicine Bow, where we made camp by a sizeable lake S.W. of town. Sibley and I set out 20 traps between us. May 12. 1 mi. S.W. Medicine Bow, 6600', Belany Co., Wyoming. Noon traps. 6 Peromyscus. Sibley took several birds and a ground squirrel. Sage thrashers and clay-colored Sparrows were numerous.