California 1950 July 11 Lake Tamescal, 420 ft., Ukameado Co., Caly. is also in heavy use but not under repair. H7.24 is in use as a brood nest still. I doubt that this pair is nesting yet. There are three young, only one with any semblance of a halo remaining. The F of this pair has the pointed shield, like the M F, the F has a rounded shield, not square. This SW pair don't seem to have any platforms active at the moment so there is no use looking for eggs until they appear. 11:13 a.m. The SE F was chasing the O bird (tag finally lost) at 55, across the ground. July 13- Yesterday, with Harry Wlexenberg, I went over to the Stockton area to hunt Egots with Dr. John Arnold and one of his students. About 11: we stopped new to Holt, about 9 miles W of Stockton, put the boat in and collected one of a flock of 4 (#83). Filed its shield in Bruns and froze the rest of it with dry ice. Also got a Green Heron for Bailey. Went onto S to COT joined Dr. Arnold, and hunted several areas N of Stockton. Egots were scarce. In one place we saw 2 adults with a 30-35 day old young, found a big brood nest of broad, narrow leaved cat-tails and Harry found another nest, probably the old egg nest. The habitat consisted of a smartweed, narrow- and broad-leaved cat-tails and bullrush (S. ocei.)