October 19, 1949, Camp Seco Pond, 2 mi. N of Valley Springs, and 1½ miles S of Pardee Dam, Calaveras Co. 38°04'N, 120°50'20"W, Elev. 698'. 340 p.m. About 2600 ducks on the pond, most of them feeding. Blue Heron Mallard - 150 Gadwall - 2 Baldepate - 1950-2000 Pintail - 300 Green-winged Teal - 25 Cinnamon Teal - 15 Wood Duck - 6 Redhead - 50 Ring-necked Duck - 15/-20 Canvasback - 25 Lesser Scaup - 60 Killdeer Black Phoebe Calif. Shrike Meadowlark Brewer Blackbird Lark Sparrows Gambel White-crowned Sparrows Oct. 19, 1949, Pardee Reservoir, Amador Co. Calif. 1345-1400. Birds at north end. Eared Grebe - 1 Baldpates - 10-12 Green-backed Goldfinch Common Canada Goose - 150 Redheads - 6 Brown Towhee Lesser Canada Goose - 35 Coots - 100's Lark Sparrows common Cackling Goose - 24 Meadowlark - 100's Oct. 20, 1949 - Project SE of Sacramento, Calif. at Signal Depot - 8 a.m. October 26, 1949, Bay Shore Drive, Berkeley, Alameda Co. Calif. 10-1015 a.m. Common Loon Black-bellied Plover California Gull Horned Grebe Willets Ring-billed Gull Fralion Cormorant Least Sandpipers Common Tern Bonaparte Gull American Egret Western Sandpipers Foresters Ten Lesser Scaup Western Gull W. Kingfisher Pipits October 29, 1949, Sacramento-Elk Grove, via roads E of hiway 99.12 noon-130 p.m. Vultures Black Phoebe Meadowlarks Cooper's Hawk California Interior Jay Calif. Bicolor Redwings Red-tailed Hawk imm. Yellow-billed Magpie - 2 Brewer Blackbirds Sparrow Hawk Western Crows - several Calif. Purple Finch Killdeer Suisum Long-billed Marsh Wren House Finch Flicker Western Mockingbirds - common C. Goldfinches Western Kingbird Robins Gambel White-crowned Sparro Modesto Song Sparrow