Cogswell 1950 Piranga ludoviciana 3 July 6 near Sugar Bowl Lodge, 7000 ft., 1.2 mi. SSW Donner Pass, Placer Co., Calif. - A second nest was discovered by Audubon campers Dixie Farhin & Mr. Mrs. Hodgson, whose description places it about 35 ft. up in dense red fir within clump of same + silver pines. A pair of this sp. has been active in the immediate vicinity for 10 days or more. The,clump is surrounded by cleared ski slopes of 3 sides, with wet willow thickets about 200 ft. beyond the lowermost corner, near which the nest tree is located. July 7 Bear Valley (see p. 1) - 3 heard singing on thr. walk. July 11 Soda Springs, 6770 ft., Nevada Co., to S-facing slope on Am. River Canyon road, 3 3/4 mi. 5 thereof, 6300 ft., Placer Co. Calif. - About 10 found on 4 stops in forest (Canadian + Transition zone) & forest border between 7 and 5:45 a.m.; several were in song. pair at a near Sugar Bowl Lodge [see above] - A, 3rd nest, con- tents unknown, which is situated among needles & twigs near tip of a 6 ft. horizontal branch, about 30 ft. up in a 40 ft. Pines [NE] murrayana. The nest is on the forest side of a clump of trees founting (in other direction) on cleared area by the 3 story lodge. The forest nearby is moderately dense, mostly second growth P. murrayana, P. monticola, & Abies magnifica with little or no understory except for younger trees; scattering Nothofagus confusalis. Snow is still present in areas where drifted.