Coppell 1949 Journal 53 Big Lagoon Humboldt co, Calif. Aug.9 (cont.) of alder without the Rubus understory.. Umbellifers & skunk cabbage are common, & other tall herbs; but the tangle of trunks of alder itself is nearly impene- trable. Saw 1 Bicolored warbler here, and a rail immature (Virginia) was glimpsed when it ran from the bed of Butler creek into tall herbs up the bank, pecked out again briefly & was gone before I could shoot: I also worked around the woods N. of camp to the Hammond lumber co. road bridge & return, resetting the 55 traps in same line as last night. Birds observed more: cathartes aura - 10+ falco sparveria - 1 Lophortyx californica - 1 pr. with 10 ½ grown young. Rail (Virginia) - 1 imm. shorebird (small)- numbers flying over Brachyramphus marmoratus- heard flying over at Basin. Colomba fasciata - 8 Chaetura vauxi many especially at dawn & dusk Selasphorus sp. - 3+ Chordeiles minor - 1 flying over early A.M. Megaceryle alcyon - 1+ Lendroecopus villosus- 1 " pubescens several Empidonax sp.(probably troglitii)- feeling young. Contopus richardsoni - several, still giving full call occasionally Nuttallornis borealis - 3+ Indigo bunting many Hirundo rustica - " Stelgidopteryx ruficollis - 2+ Petrochelidon pyrrhonota - 1 cyanocitta stelleri -1 land corvus corax - 2+ Corvus pubescens- abundant Sialia mexicana - small flock Certhia familiaris - 1 Chamaea fasciata (8)-1 pr. land Troglodytes troglodytes (singing) Turdus migratorius-several. Hylocicla mustelata - 10+ (cont'd p.54)