Fulica americana -63- July 12 Jewel Lake, Tulare Pals, Central Coala Calif. a whitish down tinging the black body down - this may merely be optical illusion tho. At the same time the B was working along the side of the Ireland and finally crossing to near the N end of the boat - S moved down the E side of the lake and crossed to H18 with 1 young - thus 5 young are accounted for. July 13- same locality - Still can account for 3 unmarked immature, and 1 adult - BG, P and the 3 unmarked immatures seem to stay pretty close together - but I believe one of the unmarked birds is of the S wood - it doesn't seem capable of flight. Noted this morning that if several birds are moving thru the Potamogeton they tend to get in line, not as a sociable move but rather because the first bird then clears a path that the others can follow. [Have not seen B1S since its release] In the last few minutes B has been near H25 with 2 young and S has been at F27 with 1 young (1:45 a.m.). The SB bird came into area H18 about 1:05 p.m. and promptly proceeded to drive the 5 young feeding at G17 to the last 2 spots of the lake. A moment later the S bird was chasing one of its own young in that same area. One of the very brood young was run down and caught at H12 - following the