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Jan., 1917 FROM FIELD AND STUDY 23 made a trip to the park on October 15; and on approaching the lake, I saw, swimming near some lily pads, a waterbird which appeared to be a very nervous Coot, but on sec- ond sight proved to be something different, although there was a similarity in size and shape. The field description is as follows: Head, neck, and throat, sooty gray; wings, rich brownish color, the outer primaries being edged with white; the under parts of the tail were also white, like that of the coot. The bill and shield were of a yellowish color, as were the legs, which were very long. This bird, evidently a Florida Gailinule (Gallinula galeata) was seen up to and including November 13, either walking over the lily pads, feeding on the banks, or swim- ming on the lake, which it did in true Coot fashion. Judging from skins seen at the University of California, the Gallinule seen at the park is an immature specimen. Mrs. Morion Gibbons also saw the Gallinule, and identi- fied it as such before knowing my views. This record should be of interest to San Fran- cisco ornithologists as this is but the second time this species has been reported for this county, although it has been found breeding around Los Ba?os.--HAROLO E. HASSEN, San Franigsco, Cali[ornia, November 23, 1916. The Valley Quail Occupying Nests of the Road-runner.--On the afternoon of April 10, 1915, near San Diego, in company with Mr. A.M. Ingersoll, a female Valley Quail (Lophortyx c. vallicola) was discovered by the latter sitting clo?e, and apparently incu- bating, upon what proved to be a deserted nest of the Road-runner (Geococcyx californi- anus ). This nest had been built, well in toward the center and about two feet above the ground, in a large lemonade berry (Rhus integvi[oIia) bush. Investigation showed the nest to contain three eggs, warm to the touch, and the fragments of a fourth, all of the Head-runner; two egg? were rotten, and one was cracked, discolored, with contents dried. Another instance of the Valley Quail occupying a nest of the Road-runner came under my observation this past season (1916), and is particularly noteworthy for the fact that the nest was eight and one-half feet above a dry wash. During the forepart of April the nest received finishing touches and was evidently ready for the depositing of eggs, when it was deserted by the Head-runners; it had been built among the terminai branches of a drooping sycamore limb, and was about five feet from, and almost on a level with, the top of an abrupt bank skirting the wash at this point. In pa?ing under the nest on April 30 I was quite surprised to flush a Valley Quail from it, and to find that four eggs Fig. 6. VALLEY QUAIL OCCUPYING NEST OF ROADRUNNER, 8? FEET ABOVE GROUND 1N A SYCA]HORE.