April 21, 1949, Lake Wyandotte, Butte Co. 1 p.m. Mallards - 2 Vulture Osprey perched on snag Coots - 2 Yuba Co. 1175 April 21, 1949, Bangor to Marysville/1330-1415, Blue Heron Valley Quail Least Sandpipers Bullock Oriole American Egrets Coots Western Kingbirds Western Vesper Sp. Mallards Killdeer Barn Swallows Lark Sparrows. 1176 Baldpates Western Sandpiper W. Crows Vultures Red-backed Sandpipers Yellow-headed Blackbirds April 23, 1949, Grey Lodge Refuge, SW Butte Co., 11-1330. Pied-billed Grebe - 4 Fafallon Cormorant - 1 White Pelicans - 5 Blue Heron - 40 American Egret - 200 Snowy Egret - 8 Mallards - 150 pairs - 1 hen on nest of 8 eggs within 2 1/2 feet of passing cars on gravel county road leading into the refuge. 1180 Gadwalls - 3 pair Pintail - 1 male Green-winged Teal - 7 Cinnamon Teal - 125 pairs Baldpates - 2 pair Vultures - 7 Cooper Hawk - 1 Marsh Hawk - 4 Pheasants - 1500& Gallinule - 1 Coots - 40 Killdeer - 12 seen Least Sandpiper - 50 Western Sandpiper - 6 Black-necked Stilt - 4 Avocets - 50&- feed by walking forward, sideswiping bill as they go. Mourning Doves - 8 pair Burrowing Owls - pair at nest hole near gate to refuge Western Kingbirds - 40 pair Barn Swallows - 4 Suisun Long-billed Marsh Wren - 100's Robin - 1 Russet-backed Thrush - 1 Pipits - 25 California Shrike - 4. Pacific Yellow-throat - 3 W. Meadowlark - 150 California Bicolor Redwing - 350 Bullock Oriole - 3 Brewer Blackbirds - 75 Green-bakced Goldfinches - 7 Western Savannah Sparrows 2 Modesto Song Sparrow - 18& April 23, 1949, Marysville, Yuba C o. 3 p. m. Flickers - none seen all day, anywhere Rough-winged Swallows, Barn Swallows, and Cliff Swallows Yellow-billed Magpies Evening Grosbeaks California Purple Finches. 1181