Mayhew 1950 Coot 2. May 16 Conaway Ranch, 2 mi east of Woodland, Yolo Co., Calif. about the color of a Plymouth Rock hen egg. They are spotted with small reddish-brown dots scattered rather uniformly over the entire egg, which is about the same size as a pheasant egg. May 20 When I visited the nest at 9:15AM, the eggs had disappeared, but the nest was still intact. (2) Another nest was found in the tule's at the edge of the pothole about 1 mile north of the old ranch headquarters. This nest had 7 eggs in it. It was constructed like the other one, keeping the eggs about a foot above the water. The bird was incubating when I found the nest, but flushed off when I approached to within 8 feet of the nest. Another nest about 30 feet away was made of tule stems out on the open water. It contained 1 chalky white egg about the size of a Coot egg, but I don't know to what species of bird to attribute it. (3) In the tules in the middle of the main drainage ditch at the extreme south- eastern end I found a nest with 6 eggs in it & about 50 yards farther east a nest with 3 eggs in it. May 30 (2) The ♀ is still incubating the eggs in this nest. Today the ♂ was swimming around in front of the nest.