Davis 1948 Red's Meadow, 7500 ft., Sierra Nat'l Fk., Madera Co., Calif. July 11, 1948 About lake & nearly fdrds. / whitebreasted nutthatch noted. Tsuga mertensiana and Thuya plicata grow about the lake. Possibly accounts for presence of five gros- breks. In camp in A.M. July 12, 1948. Hunted about 5 miles along trail to Fish Creek. 2 Thamnosfhis were seen on rotst logs next to Streams. One was collected. Several Gerrhara- tus were seen crawling through underbrush, and one was collected, but later escaped. About 5 miles from camp, saw several grossefly into an older thicket at the edge of a meadow dissected by small streams. I fired at one, but it was a juvinal. The adult & another juvinal flew in oppo- site directions. The bee remained nearby, chas- ing to the other juvinal, but she remained deep in the alders & I never saw her again. Steller's jay heard several times along the trail. Shot a red-breasted softsucker, but it remained hanging in the tree. A pair of dippers were noted uttering high, fying notes, by a stream 5 miles up the trail, when we reached our farthest point for the day. July 13, 1948 In camp all day, save for a short trip to