Bird Notes: Aviary birds of the San Francisco Bay Region, v4289
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Alameda, bal. Sterna forsteri. About forty. Barpodacus mexicanus. Four. Astragalinus psaltria. Two. Passer domesticus. Abundant. MAY - 1 1904 Alameda, bal. Larus philadelphia. I saw a few near Bay Farm Island. I have seen them for the last week near Goat Island. There I saw two with mottled heads. Sterna forsteri. Quite abundant. I shot one with a gray head. I saw them standing on the stakes and on the mud. Excunetes pusillus. I saw two or three thousand in one flock, from which I obtained twenty-five with one charge of number six shot. Passer domesticus. Abundant. Larus glaucescens. Larus occidentalis. Larus californicus. Numenius hudsonicus. Euphagus cyanocephalus. MAY - 4 1904 Alameda, bal. Proctopus nigricollis. In very high plumage. Larus californicus. Larus philadelphia. Sterna forsteri Odemia deglandi