june 10. Mrs. Fletcher's group went to Lake Tahoe. I went in Mrs. Pepper's car with Mrs. Paul and Mary Lewis a different way from any I had known, via Marsh Creek and Boden Highway to Stockton, then to Lockport, Colorado, Placerville, American River. We stopped first at the east end of the Marsh Creek road where we watched a pair of Ash-Throated Flycatchers. As we crossed the valley we saw the W. Mowingbird, W. Kingbird, Cliff and Barn Swallows, W. Bluebird, Robin, Linnets, Redstart, and heard Redwing's, Meadowlarks and Brewer's Blackbird. The most striking bird was a Western Tanager, male in full plumage, on a weed stalk near the Boden Highway - no trees near - At noon we stopped in the foothills above Zane. Where the hills were covered with Blue Oaks - Birds were very abundant: Valley Quail, Mourning Doves, Buzzards, Nutall Woodpecker, Calif. Woodpecker, W. Kingbird, Calif. Jay, Titmouse, Brewer's, Vagrant, W. Great- catcher, Traveling Bird, Yellow Warbler, Long-tailed Chat, Chirle, Grosbeak, Lazuli Bunting, Spotted and Brown Tortoises, Linnets, Chipping Sparrow. In the grassy Countryside above Zane the Horned Larks were perched, facing the wind, on the barbed wire fences. Sometimes I could count 25 in sight at once. The occasional Dark Sparrow was seen also - There was much snow above Strawberry. The lake looked less blue than usual as the air was not very clear. Some snow above Emerald Bay. At Philmon Beach the first bird was the Fox Sparrow and the Mt. Devil was whistling. Most of the region was burned over some years ago. Some large