July 3, 1949, 12-mile Swamp, Benton County, Oregon 1300-1330 PDST with Ard !! young Pied-billed Grebes - 3 Blue Heron - 1 Wood Duck F Vultures everywhere W. Red-tailed Hawk Sparrow Hawks Bobwhites calling no coots Killdeer Mourning Doves Flicker Horned Larks seen and heard singing Barn Swallows and young quite common over swamp. Pair at shed. Visited nest and the young were gone. Large pile of feces on floor under nest. This nest contained 5 well-advanced eggs on June 11, 1949. Cliff Swallows - adults and young dipping for water north of bridges. Western Crows perched in dead ash in south end. Oregon Chickadees Tule Wrens - one or two heard singing Robins Russet-backed Thrush singing Cedar Waxwings - many Yellow Warblers Pacific Yellowthroats W. Meadowlarks Northwestern Redwings Brewer Blackbirds Black-headed Grosbeak - 1 M in ash west of bridges. Song Sparrow. Carp, yellow perch and Oregon Pike seen swimming near bridges. Many bullfrog tadpoles floating on aquatic vegetation near surface. Sparganium simplex just developing heads. July 10, 1949, Sacramento, Sacto Co. to Jackson, Amador County, Calif. 645-730 am Snowy Egret Barn Swallow W. Meadowlark Blue Heron Cliff Swallow Calif. Bicolor Redwing Cooper's Hawk Interior Calif. Jay Brewer Blackbird W. Red-tailed Hawk Yellow-billed Magpie Lazuli Bunting Sparrow Hawk Calif. Plain Titmouse Calif. Purple Finch Valley Quail House Wren Sacramento Brown Towhee Killdeer Robin Sacramento Spotted Towhee Mourning Doves Western Bluebird W. Lark Sparrow Western Kingbirds Phainopepla in live oak area Chipping Sparrow Black Phoebe Calif. Shrike Ruddy Horned Lark English Sparrow July 10, 1949, Silver Lake, Amador Co. Calif. 7150' elev. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Rufous Hummingbird Sierra Hermit Thrush Montane Lincoln Sp. Monterey Red-shafted Fisker Mountain Bluebirds Modoc ? Song Sp. Sierra Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Golden-crowned Kinglet Wood Pewee Nutt Cassin Solitary Vireo Olive-sided Flycatcher Calaveras Warbler Blue-fronted Stellar Jay Golden Pileolated Warbler Clarke Nutcrackers Black-throated Gray Warbler Short-tailed Mtn. Chickadee Western Tanager Red-breasted Nuthatch Black-headed Grosbeak Black-eared Pigmy Nuthatch Cassin Purple Finch Sierra Creeper Junco N. Rock Wren in granite boulders Chipping Sparrow Robin Montane White-crowned Sparrow