CHRISTMAS BIRD CENSUS, December 26, 1949 Oakland-Berkeley,-San Francisco Bay area. Time: Gullicon 7 am to 6 p.m. H E Childs- 7 am to 12 noon R E Bailey- 12:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. Mileage: 6 by car, 3 afoot. Weather: clear, cool, visibility excellent, very little wind. Area: East shore San Francisco Bay, Point Isabel, Richmond, to Emeryville, including Berkeley Yatch Harbor and Aquatic Park; nature area of Tilden Regional Park and Jewel Lake. Eared grebe, 3; western grebe, 8; pied-billed grebe, 1; double- crested cormorant, 2319; Canada goose, 3; lesser Canada goose, 1; mallard, 2; baldpate, 5; & pintail, 28; green-wing teal, 3; canvasback, 31; scaup sp?, 774,024; common golden-eye, 30; bufflehead, 3; surf scoter, 25; ruddy duck, 351; sharp-shin hawk, 1; red-tail hawk, 2; sparrow hawk, 9; California quail, 10; coot, 114; killdeer, 32; black-bellied plover, 68; Wilson snipe, 4; willet, 283; greater yellow-legs, 2; least sandpiper, 230; red-backed sandpiper, 750; long-bill dowitcher, 1; west sandpiper, 2070; marbled godwit, 30; sanderling, 160; glaucous- winged gull, 153; western gull, 42; herring gull, 22; Calif. gull, 44; ring-billed gull, 97; short-billed gull, 44; Bona- parte's gull, 302; Forster tern, 25; horned owl, 3; Anna hummin- bird, 5; belted kingfisher, 1; red-shafted flicker, 12; downy woodpecker, 1; black phoebe, 5; Steller Jay, 2; scrub jay, 18; chestnut-backed chickadee, 2; plain titmouse, 7; creeper, 1; wren-tit, 12; Bewick wren, 3; robin, 111; varied thrush, 5; hermit thrush, 3; western bluebird, 1; ruby-crowned kinglet, 4; water pipit, 15; cedar waxwing, 12; Hutton vireo, 2; orange- crowned warbler, 1; Nashville warbler, 2; myrtle warbler, 1; Audubon warbler, 20; Townsend warbler, 1; English sparrow, 42; redwing, 120; Calif. purple finch, 4; house finch, 158; american goldfinch, 10; spotted towhee, 19; brown towhee, 4; Oregon junco, 83; white-crowned sparrow, & 30; golden-crowned sparrow, 62; fox sparrow, 18; Lincoln sparrow, 3; song sparrow, 27. Total: 79 species, 782,162 individuals.