million 749 Eulica americana -9- Apr 17 Lake Jewell, Tilden Park, Contra Costa Co, Calif. along the edge of the cat-tails) This south pair of coots seem equally at home on either side of the pond, but the small bird seems to spend more time in area (6) while the larger stays near (7). Perhaps because of the dull day (25.) the coots are all very quiet, not giving usual group of co notes- I'll check to see if this is a correlated with light intensity. Apr 26- same locality - 3 eggs were hatched at 9:45 a. m. the 3 young being in the nest. They left the nest as I approached. 6 eggs still unhatched, didn't examine to see if they were pipped or not. One of the parent birds was in close attendance, and