Fulica americana -181- 427 Jewel Lake, Contra Costa Co., Calif. 3 is presently out of sight. 9:15- 3 is at J20 feeding with 3 yng while B is at G20 feeding w/1 yng - 13 tags have lost their color on one side - the top side but are still blue under moth - G1S seems to have one bad tag, tho its colors are still discernable - all the rest of the tags seen today look as good as the day they were put on. 9:21 B is at H11 moving 3 w/2 yng - immatures are at F & G7- soon to move - At 9:24 every immature is out of sight- it taking B about 45 seconds to do the job - she works silently - but churns after successful completion of her mission. - one of the two dark headed young has the 2 first white spots laterally on the breast - the smallest has none - both the dark birds have a general suffusion of white plumes on their heads, giving them a woolly appearance - they both have tho orange chin plumes to which the white headed bird lacks - this white headed female business looks like a mat of white down coming out and covering the dark, the bald pate is covered and the whole head has a general hoary appearance - the youngest bird still has plumes on the wing but they seem to all be white now - all body plumes seem to be gone.