July 30, 1952, Surprise Valley, Modoc Co. Calif. Eagleville (S of) to Cedarville. 130-3 p.m. 6,500-4,700 feet. A marsh at S end of Lower Lake. Vulture Sparrow Hawk Virginia Rail - 1 seen and flushed in flooded pasture. Red-shafted Flicker Lewis Woodpecker on telephone pole in agric. area. Western Kingbirds Barn Swallows Cliff Swallows California Jays Black-billed Magpies - several in flock Sage Thrasher in juniper near 6,500' el. Robin English Sparrow Brewer Blackbird July 30, 1952, Along US395, NE of Litchfield 8-10 miles, Lassen Co. Calif. At 5:15 p.m., following rain. Vast field area flooded on both sides of highway contained: Mallards Cinnamon Teal Pintail Marsh Hawk Willet Solitary Sandpipers Avocets Common Terns August 9-10, 1952, Silver Lake, Amador Co. Calif. C.S.H.88, 7,200' el. Mallards - pr & 5 class III's Western Tanagers - just males seen Cooper Hawk Lazuli Bunting - 1M Spotted Sandpiper - 3 Pine Grosbeak - eating green berries of California Gull - 1 imm. Lonicera congestalis Calliope Hummingbird - M & F Green-backed Goldfinches in Wyethia Rufous Hummingbird - 1M Green-tailed Towhees in Cean. and Huckle- Red-shafted Flicker - about 9 about berry oak. Full-size young followed Hairy Woodpeckers adult thru brush, on ground. Williamson Sapsuckers - several Oregon Junco Wood Pewees Chipping Sparrow Little Flycatchers Fox Sparrow Olive-sided Flycatchers White-crowned Sparrows Violet-green Swallows - perched on dead pines. Stellar Jays - few Raven Clarke Nutcracker - 2 Mountain Chickadees common Red-breasted Nuthatches Slender-billed Nuthatch - 1 imm. Calif. Creepers seen often House Wren - several Robin -nest at 22' in 25' lodgepole pine. Of rags twigs and grasses. In tall red fir and lodgepole pine area. Young in nest very loud when fed. Ruby-crowned Kinglet - adults and young with very red crown. Audubon Warbler - a few MacGillivray Warbler - 2 Hermit Warbler - several M, F and immatures seen. Townsend Warbler - 1 M imm. Pileolated Warbler - 3 Br. Blackbirds- flocks of 6-15 S along west side and around south end to roost in willows. Except for 1, would not fly over open lake at 8 p.m./0