7. GULLION 1950 May 27 Fulica americana 462 Lake Temescal 420 ft. Alameda Co., Calif. Found what must be the alternate brood nest at the SW pair at I 6, 19. It is of looser a coarser construction than the egg nest, not neatly put together, no real ramp, much larger than the egg nest, in an opening then the cat tail she made when I was searching for their nest earlier this spring. Watched the SW F with 3 yng in S inlet. She is feeding 1yng, the youngest. The other two were wandering around close to cover by themselves, finally over to the E. The yng being fed was showing the usual begging display, though not as welldev. oped as it will be later. It waves its orange plumed wings as it begs. The body plumes seem to be about gone on the two larger yng but are still present, tho somewhat faded, on the smaller. 9:58a. m. E pair feeding w/ 3 yng at O 14. The yng seem to be feeding smoothly with the F. It seems probable that there are no more than 3 yng in the E brood, but I have no idea how many are in the SW brood. There are at least 3. The W area is defunct and I have even lost track of the birds belonging in it. There are 5 pairs of birds here at the S end. The E pair SE pair N pair, SW pair and W &E+an SC bird that usually are at about FJ 12+13. Checking further N. at E 37 or thereabout were 3 nests, at least 2 of which are SC.