Fulica Americana -19- May 1 Jewel Lake, Tilden Park, Contra Costa Co. Calif. tails while the ♂ defends the territory. Later the ♀ left the area, leaving the ♂ alone with the brood scattered all over the area on the north side of the island. May 2- same locality - Only 7 eggs in nest C12.13 #4 piped, 9 piped, 6, 10, 2, 1,*3 well piped. Other young heard in area 5:30 pm. Both parents were close by, giving the same "pubk" and "poonk" as the other pair. The male churned on two occasions. - Earlier, at 4:15 p.m. - the male from the north end #4 was near. (pair from C12.13 were out in open water with 2 downy young at 5:40 p.m.) H12, when the male from C12.13 came splattering across the water, driving him north to near H15. The ♀ from C12.13 was close behind. On H15 all three birds spread their under tail coverts and both males arched wings in very high position, spreading and giving paired display. The ♀ soon left the fracas, but both ♂'s hung around a moment. Then both preened & C12♂ returned towards his area, while C26♂ moved along edge of cattails diving & at H17, preening again, then heading through open water towards F26, from there I lost track of him. Later, I found a fresh nest platform at C25.19. Didn't see or hear ♀ or brood from C26.6. The fresh nest plat form was not defended, it has a number of green- cattails broken down to it, made