Behle 1934. Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Co. Utah Jan. 1. year about 2000. They nest right down in the marshes. I was interested in finding out that he had pictures of mallards nests some 10 ft. high in bushes and trees and not on the marshy ground like other ducks. Sugden also told me of his observations on a california gull feeding in the periphery of the foliage of a cherry tree. Being unable to perch and the branches being weak the bird flopped down in the top of the tree with out- spreed wings thus supporting its weight. At another time he observed the same behavior by a Flicker eating berries from a bush. This is curious behavior. Woodbury is still active collecting although his increased teaching duties leave him with little free time. He has but one student working in birds, a fellow from the Utah Agricultural College who now holds a fellowship at the U of Utah