on along the main road until we came to overfl owed pastures where we found many Stilts, Black Terns and a few Avocets. As we walked out on a dyke both the Stilts and Terns became very much ex- cited. The Terns flew over our heads calling; lighted on fence posts. The stilts dragged their wings, jumped up a foot or two, then down; flew over our heads calling excitedly. Farther on we found all the Blackbirds, Brewer, Redwing, Yellowheaded and Tricolor, in the Tules: Cinnamon Teal, Florida Gal- brules, one family with six young. Even the Bavies had red bills. In one pool there was a Crid-billed G rebe in breeding plumage. > do not remember ever having seen it before in this plumage. The most striking thing was the color of the bill - On either side of the black bar was a large white area. The top of the head looked higlid and there was much reddish brown on the neck. It had a way of sinking suddenly out of sight with no motion of diving. As we returned to the hotel we saw a Night Hawk (Texas) soaring above and a flock of Hudsonian Corkscrews flew northward. May 24. We had breakfast at 6:30 and drove to the Game Refuge at 7. The gate was opened for us and we drove around the circuit. A flock of about 50 White Peli- cans were rising about the ponds and