WB Davis 1936. Alkali Lake Ranch, lake Co., Oregon. May 23, Left Lakeview yesterday about 12:30, headed for Burns). The highway is paved a short distance north of Lakeview and then gives way to a rough, gravelled road. We took our time and stopped at Alert Lake - now containing considerable water - for about 1/2 hours). Collected 3♀ and 1♂ Redwings near the south end of the lake. A small colony was nesting in a reedy area at the edge of the lake. Young, about two day old, were in several nests. Of the two sexes, the ♀ Redwing is much more wary than the male. In addition she is much faster in normal flight, We saw hundreds of gulls, Caly or Ring- bill, on the lower end of the lake. Also a flock of some twenty-add Avocets and one small flock of some shorebirds about the size of a Godwit. The lake is about 20 miles long and perhaps 8 or 10 miles wide at its widest point, and quite shallow. To the east of the lake a mountain mass, devoid trees, rises rapidly from the lake. The rocky, basaltic nature of this lake facing slope offers habitat for the Marmot Rock Wren, and Canyon Wren; the former observed, the two birds