77 The Brewer Sparrows were singing a canary-like song of very light quality. It was very hard to see them as they would drop to the ground and run along. I finally saw one in excellent light near by. The tail looked long and very slender, the bird very small, not much larger than a bushtit, plain light color below, streaks above, light streaks above and below eye. Much less water in swampy area than last year and now flowing through Geneva. One little swamp nearest Minden had most water and there we found Avocets (2fvr.), Canada Geese (goshings), Mallards, Cinnamon Teal, Pintails, Fork-tail Tern, Kelleder, Yellow- throat and Marsh Wren. In two places large flocks of gulls were seen (Calif.) which rose and circled as they do when they migrate. Several pairs of Cinn. Teal were found in other places. No Phalangos or Willets this year. At Glenbrooke there were many limnets. As this used to be a large branch after the lumbering period, limnets may have been established there for many years. June 2. Quiet day at cottage. Cedar warning again - not a flock. In late afternoon climbed the cliff off the Fleischacker place. Heard the Hermit Thrush as usual. Also Mt. David which seemed Lincoln Sparrow near Tanana A Saw a Shrubber-billed Nuttatch near this college June 3. Returned to Sage brush area at bottom of the grade below Carson City. Found nests of Magpie, Nevada Sage Sparrow and Sage Thrasher. Young Magpies were outside of the nest but not flying yet. Three young birds in Sage Sparrow's nest. Five eggs in Sage Thrasher's nest - eggs dark greenish blue with brown spots - very beautiful. Heard Thrashers songs - more modulated than Calif. Thrasher, more musical. Brewer Sparrows singing everywhere - many like framed canaries - Lunched in Aspen grove on the grade - A Squirrel was drilling a hole in a live aspen about five ft from ground. Almost exactly opposite on the other side of the branch a House Wren was resting in an old hole. They seemed to be feeding