September 1949 Fulica americana 139 los 17 Univ. Calif. Campus, Alameda Co., Calif. and the inflammation present earlier from the safety pin has now vanished - apparently the play in the pin was doing the nasty work. SC has lost both tags so I shall replace them with tag Bx (black & copper) with the double wire deal thus to see if it won't better than the style. Of course staple is still rusting kind as durability of these tags are limited. I also want to see how black and copper look for visibility. hold single the the the note: - from the bird I dissected last night the G, the syrinx and cloacal regions are preserved in formalin (40%) while the frontal shield and the section where the tag was pinned on as fixed in Bouins fix. The safety pin where it went thru the flesh shows no sign of corrosion from body fluids. - watching the bird feeding lounging this afternoon after I furnished them a supply of green grass, I noticed one bird carefully picking up grit, quite selectively. In the gizzard of last night's kill I found that the grit