56. Squatarola helvetica. One black-bellied. Oxyechus vociferus. Fairly common. Totanus melanoleucus. One or two. Numenius hudsonicus. A few. Sandpipers. One or two small flocks, Recurvirostra americana. A few. Steganopus tricolor. One. Madorhamphus griseus. One, Ardea herodias. Quite a few, Nycticorax nycticorax. Large flocks were driven up from large tube swamps, in which they would soon settle again. Botaurus lentiginosus. Two or three. Heard them also. Anas bosca. Several. Aythya americana & Plegadis chroa were seen by Mr. Beck Safila acuta. Several, Nettium carolinense. Three or four. One or two cripples. Querquedula cyanoptera. A few. Spatula clypeata. Three or four. Cristamatura jamaicensis. Two or three. Lands birds were about the same as yesterday, except that I saw two or three Cathartes aura and large flocks of Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus in certain tube swamps. Two or three Safila acuta which were skimmed had broken wing bones which had healed again allowing them to fly. The bird which was nesting had no broken bones, however. 3789 Oxyechus vociferus ♀ Merced Co., Calif., May 5, 1909 3790 " "