Fulica Americana 529 emo87 Lake Temescal, 42ft., Alameda Co., Calif. - Nest has a well formed tho wet cup. Another display structure, composed mostly of green cat-tails, is at H6.4. The nest at I 6.18 is still in use, well built up with a wet cup. Wet cups in old nests or feces on or about the structures seems to always indicate that it is a brood nest. Though egg nests may be built of wet-cattails they are allowed to dry and the nest itself is kept dry and free of feces. Found a foot secondary and several other feathers about nest II 6.18, indicate that molting may be commencing. Jewel Lake 510ft. Contra Costa Co., Calif. - 12:45 p.m. - a bird is incubating at H17.2- no other coots visible on the pond. At 1:25 the S approached the N from the S, to G/6.16 then saw the car, so he stopped and moved S. At 1:29 he returned, went to the nest, with a bill full of dried cat-tail leaves and went up on the ramp to give them to the incubating bird. After he departed, away along the open edge, to H12, but at 1:33 was back at the nest again with a load of cat tails. Again the stuff was taken by the S and he departed. All this while two immatures were feeding at G/15-16. Once one of these immatures tried begging but the S pocketed it, another time, a young was in the route