Illioi P50 Mar 3 Fulica Americana 218 Jewel Lake, 576 ft., Contra Costa Co., Calif. Both birds of N pair have swollen shields. The [illegible] M bird of this pair is the larger, in fact the pinned bird was just heard giving the ? note at K20 5:05pm. The N is at N26. Apparently territory is not yet defended to its limits, with scattered defenses only close to the fortress(?) nest area. The one big effort now seems to be to get the fifth bird out of the area. A crow as just given by a bird at H14. 20 birds were feeding at C14, a ? chasing the fifth bird now the E end at the dam. Mar 4 Elmir. Calif. Campus, Alameda Co., Calif. Of several Several foods put in pond, romain, mustard greens, broken up brussel sprouts, lettuce, grass, clover, carrot Tops, spinach and pondweed (from tank). Of the foods put out last Saturday, all but the whole brussels sprouts, and a few onions have been cleaned up. Two birds are minus tags, XL18 in addition to LG1s. A nest is well under way in the corner. cto base is composed of course pieces of bark with a few cat-tails on top. Between mustard greens and romain, th latter is chosen. W3 reached up and took a bite out of th a leafe of the low shrub growing there. Romain still rates over spinach. W3, had down,