March 24, 1912. This morning I visited the Alameda County Infirmary. In the pond there were numbers of Shovellers (Opatula clipeata), many of them wild, and all unpinioned and all tame. There was a pair of geese that seemed to be hybrids between Branta Canadensis and Anser albifrons. They had the furrowed neck of the latter, [illegible] the white-front of the latter, the white cheeks of the former. The upper parts and lower parts were colored as in Anser, but without the black markings on the underparts. The neck and part of head were brown instead of black as in Branta Canadensis. May 5, 1912: To-day I visited Mr. Kytha. His Lamproonesia sponsa have a round nest on the ground under a rose bush next to a high board fence. Mr. Kytha says he thinks there are six eggs. While I was there the bird remained on the nest, the edge of which is well built up with whitish down. His pair of Netrium formosum had two yellow eggs in a somewhat similar round nest. Had right young Anas boscaq a week old and others hatching