Mayhew 1949 Mallard 8. June 11 Conaway Ranch, 2 miles east of Woodland, Yolo Co., Calif. the bank. The ♀ stayed behind flopping her wings & trying to get me to follow her. The young finally hid in the bushes ahead of me, & I was unable to scare them out again. When the ♀ decided I was far enough from her brood, she flew out into a rice field. ② Upon returning to this nest, I found things just as before — still 5 eggs, with a little down around the top of the nest. A dead ♂ was found along a ditch bank. The head had been severed from the body, but I could see no way of determining the cause of its death, as it had been dead for quite a period of time. June 12 This morning I found a nest with 5 eggs ⑨ in it. There was no down in the nest. It was very flat with little barley straw on the bottom. The nest was 20 paces west of a flag on the ditch bank. ⑩ Another nest was found about 50 yards from #9, from which the young had departed. Left in the nest were 2 mallard eggs & 1 pheasant egg. One duck egg was well on the way to maturity, the other one was unfertilized. The pheasant in the egg had already developed downy plumage. The nest was quite exposed, there being very little barley around the nest. ⓵ About 8:30 A.M. I came across 2 broods