Behle 1934 Egg Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah June 25 but exciting from a navigators point of view. Barking giant waves and wind and rain and after running aground and hitting rocks we arrived at Salt Lake at 12 midnight after one of the worst storms of the season. Byron Hot Springs, Contra Costa Co., Cal. July 27- Started at 10:00 AM with Mr Behle to Homeed Sake country so that we could collect a few and locate a good area where they exist in abundance and within reasonable distance so that weekly trips could be made for molt studies etc. We had been told that such conditions would be found along the Murch creek Road and over near Byron. Here we drove via Walnut Creek, Concord, Pittsburg, Antioch, Oakley, Brentwood to Byron. We drove over to Byron Hot Springs and walked thru the waste-high salt brush and onto the white alkaline flats with Salicornia. No signs of Homeed Sarks were found in this distinctive area. I assume there was too much vegetation since the alkaline conditions were similar to those of the salt flats west of Salt Lake City where I found