296 1876. Friday Apr. 14 Point Reyes N. B. Columbus Cagnaticus Columbos tortuatus Orculus Carbo Dumalus prospens - Circus Hnd. Cloudy with E. wind and frequent showers of mist & rain. From this morning feeling rather though but with a pretty fair head. Shortly after breakfast two geese (G. Can.) came flying along close to the water and lit off the point. One of them swam quietly ashore and climbed up on a rock while the other - more suspicious - kept swimming about out of range of the land. Borrowing Stone's gun I started to stalk them and succeeding in getting up behind a rock within boy range, got a shot at the bad & neck of the one sitting on the rock and killed it. The other flew off but afterwards came back and answering its hank I called it up within long range and shot it it but without effect. Afterward went out on the point and lay for four time without getting any good shot though I find three long ones. This morning there was a heavy flight of coots and birds flew all day in & demtany manner. In the P.M. there was a large flight of Gulls (Lo. a putatus) and Cormorants, of the latter all were G. dielpinus graptus five G. Carbo which came along very near the point, the white patches on head & flanks showing plainly. Saw several fine black old squaws & many changing Id. spent much of the time watching the fowl though the telescope. Saw a good many widers & found large flocks of brants, Two Columbos tortuatus one Circus Hendersonius & one Dum. prospens