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36.
Passer domesticus.
Along the seawall I saw a few Nycticorax nycticorax
and a good many gulls.
In a slough near the roundhouse I saw one snipe,
on the marsh a flock of about fifty curlew or godwit. On
the beach at the junction there were a few sandpipers.
From two to three hundred gulls were strung out in groups
along the bare sand beside the mole. Larus occidentalis
and Larus californicus were distinguished.
On the bay I saw only a few gulls — Larus occidentalis,
Larus californicus, and Larus heermanni.
San Francisco to Alameda, cal.
Conditions: 5:15 P.M. to 5:35 P.M. clear; warm; light west
wind.
On the trip over I saw only a few Larus occidentalis owing
to my unfavorable position. At the roundhouse
there was a flock of about 50 gulls — Larus occidentalis
was among them. About a dozen sandpipers were
also busy feeding on the sand.
Alameda, cal.
Conditions: — 7:15 P.M. clear; warm; now wind.
An Aphelocoma californica was perched in a
pear tree busily wiping his beak. Evidently he had
just finished a repast on pears. One Tetrindo
erythrogaster flew by.
July 28, 1904.
Alameda to San Francisco, cal.
Conditions: — 7:00 A.M. to 8:00 A.M. clear; warm; west
wind.