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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Cogswell
1950
Leucophoyx thula
June 25 Sierra Valley, 4880 ft., Sierra Co., Calif. - 2+ seen flying low over marshy pastureland in central part of valley.
Aug. 23 Little Washoe Co., 5020 ft., Washoe Co., Nev. - about 10 in 2 small groups (later all together) among am. Egrets in shallow weed filled central part of pond, 5 other along mud clods by ditch dredged out in 1948.
These, the first seen here this year, are much later than the first post breeding visitors in 1948 (July 9,29)