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to holding pens in Anaverde Valley, the ultimate point of liberation. 

 Eleven birds occupying one pen were freed here on March 2 from a 

 point adjoining a State quail refuge caretaker's house in the center of 

 the Valley. Some of these birds made a rather long flight toward the 

 neighboring hills where released, but later returned to join others that 

 liad remained close to the pens. The second pen of ten birds was 

 liberated a week later. Most of the first lot worked southwest into the 

 hills bordering the valley shortly after liberation and the last one seen 

 near the house was noted on March 24. The birds from the second 

 pen remained longer in the valley floor, but they too later joined the 

 others in the rolling foothills. 



These birds were liberated on land posted as State quail sanctuary 

 and patrolled daily by Refuge Caretaker C. H. Edmondson. Preda- 

 tory animal control work has been carried on here by Edmondson for 

 two years and is to be continued. The situation was selected for this 

 planting only after most careful consideration of many sites and it 

 promises to be an ideal one. Thus conditions appear to be promising 

 for the success of this planting of sand-grouse, yet it should be borne in 

 mind that many factors involve the successful introduction of any 

 foreign species, the lack of any one of which may cause failure. There- 

 fore, should the present planting prove to be a disappointment it will in 

 no wise conclusively demonstrate that this species can not be successfully 

 introduced into some other type of desert habitat in the State. 



The Division wishes again, on behalf of the sportsmen of Cali- 

 fornia, to acknowledge with gratitude Mr. Lombardi's generosity in 

 making this introduction possible. — James Moffitt, April 25, 1934. 



NOTES ON STREAM SURVEY WORK IN CALIFORNIA * 



As noted in the last issue of this magazine, three stream survey 

 parties are now operating in California under the direction of the 

 writer on funds allotted to the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries from the 

 Public Works Administration. Each party consists of one leader and 

 three scientific assistants. Intensive stream survey work is being carried 

 on in the following areas: Klamath-Trinity, Sierra and Mono-Inyo, 

 National Forests. 



The Klamath-Trinity party left Stanford May 1 for Copco, where 

 they began operations. The field work of this party is under the direc- 

 tion of A. C. Taft, Assistant Aquatic Biologist of the Bureau of Fish- 

 eries. The other four members are Leo Shapovalov, Peter Doudoroff, 

 Mitchell Hanavan and Kelshaw Bonham. Two trucks were assigned 

 this unit for the entire period of five months' operations. 



The Mono-Inyo and Sierra parties left Stanford June 1, going to 

 North Fork in the San Joaquin drainage, where a brief training period 

 was inaugurated for the members of these parties. Afterwards, the 

 Sierra party began actual field work on the streams and lakes in this 

 National Forest, and the Mono-Inyo party began working the streams 

 that fiow to the east from the crest of the Sierra in the southern end of 

 the Owens Valley, Each of these parties is to spend four months in the 

 field. 



 Published by permission of the U. S. Commissioner of Fisheries. 



