Journal -113- Aug 9 Big Lagoon, Humboldt Co., Calif. Urtica Californica and alder. A family group came through the forest and I collected 1 immature and 1 adult ♂ Worked up E along the thicket to an area hollowed out by cattle. I turned into the forest fasteres there. Working in & found a very moist situation with very large plants of stem Cabbage Lyssichiton Kamtschaticense a sedge Carex sp., and some areas of extremely dense salmonberry. Spruce was the only conifer in the area and the alder Ulmus rubra being the under-story tree. Also lots of ferns of several species, deep moss and liverworts. Lots of deer pellets and a number of game trails. Chestnut-backed thrushes, song sparrows and winter wrens were common on the forest floor - chestnut backed chickadees, golden-crowned kinglets seemed to be about all in the spruce foliage. Purple martins were nearly constantly overhead - head above the forest top. Worked back out of this area, crossing a pasture to the birdge across Maple Creek. In the alder-willow vignarian association I saw two Red-breasted Sapsuckers, numerous