Coyseell 1947 Journal 64 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Aug. 16 (cont) and the general lay of the vegetation on the ridge NE of Maple Creek, the ranch where Murray & I were this A.M., etc. From there I went along the south border of the marsh at the S.C. end of the lagoon, passing thru Scirpus & Carex belts, across a channel to an island with open (grazed) flats of Carex & Potamogeton & some open mud; thence back across the old channel to the S. end of the highway bridge & thru the bit of marsh & wet meadow just W. of the bridge. This last is a mass of Potentilla, a low, thin sedge, some fernous & much grass; it is ungrazed, looks like ideal Microstis habitat. Finishing at the Bridge at 4:30 p.m. I had seen or heard the following species in or over the marsh and lagoon: Pelecanus occidentalis - 2 Phalacrocorax sp? - 3 Ardea herodias - 1 Anas platyrhynchos - 3+ Anas acuta - 300 (careful) Anas carolinensis - 1 (estimate) Cathartes aura - 2+ Heliocnemis limicola - several Porzana carolina - 1+ Juliola americana - 4 Charadrius vociferus - 1 Squatarola squatarola - several ?? (glimpsed from bridge, while passing in ear) Actitis macularius - 1 Erolis minutilla - 3 Crexetes mauri - 1 Larus occidentalis - 1 imm. " californicus - 1 ad. " sp (" or ?) - 2 Chetura vauxi - many Selayorus sp. - 1?+ Tachycinetus thalassius - several Drepanoprocne brocks - many Heligopsiseryx ruficollis - 1 ad. Xirimbos rustica - many Progne subis - 2 Corvus corax - 2 Telmatodytes pallidus - many Wilsonia pusilla - several Ageleius phoenixus - 30+ Cuphaeus cyanoccephalus. 1?+ (at log pond) melopeta melodes many In late p.m. Murray & I set traps in forest of Sequoia sempervirens, Abies grandis, Pseudotsuga taxifolia, Picea sitchensis with an understory chiefly of Gaul- theria shallon with other shrubs in some areas, such