Fulica Americana 14/1 Nov 17 Union Calif Campus Alameda Ca Calif. -cabbage or lettuce leaves to them. that if it is in the water in is cleaned up in a relatively short time. One lot of cabbage leaves even on the ground for 24 hours and hardly touched, but these same leaves thrown in the water lasted about four hours, or less even.-Watching P work over some lawn trimmings it picked up but a lot of clover leaves and stems but seemed to eat few of them, it more regularly ate the trimmings of grass. The clover was always picked up by the stem so perhaps the bird is not able to distinguish the clover stem from a grass leave until it is handled. Again, the grass in the water is preferred to the same material on land. 1/3/5 arched once this afternoon as VS9 swam close to it. Nov 18 same locality-Tarans-Mid toe measured best holding bird upside down between legs, inserting thumb nail at head of tarsus, measure from there to flesh at base of the mid-toe nail. Can determining head of tarsus case must be taken to get nail at the proper position, between the and the lower end of the tibia-fibula. -se next page-