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On June i, scores of nests of the Ulack Tern (Hydrochclidon nigra siirina- 
nioisis) were noted in the marsh at Al-Tahoe everyone of which was in the 
course of construction or just completed. On June 2 about three miles south- 
east of Ihjou, I noted the Parkman Wren {Troglodytes acdon parkinani) for the 
Fig. ,16. Nest .vnd Eggs ok the Sora Rail, Photographed June lo, 1909, 
Near Lake Tahoe 
first time in the region. Its occurrence here at this date would indicate its nest- 
ing in this locality as very ])robahle. On June 4 among the tall marsh grass of a 
boggy tract on the r>ijou meadow, 1 found a nest of the Sora Rail {Porzana Car- 
olina) the fir.st I believe to he recorded for Lake Valley. The nest held the un- 
