39. I saw a humming-bird (Calypte anna ?) sitting on a limb of a pear tree near by the house. Passer domesticus was to be seen every place. A few Nycticorax nycticorax were on the sand off the seawall. Larus occidentalis and some gulls I was unable to determine were also present. In the vegetable gardens I noted a few Euphagus cyanoccephalus on the manure piles. On the marsh, there was a flock of about fifty curlew or godwit which flew up as the train passed. On the sand at the round- house there were about 25 sandpipers and a flock of perhaps 200 gulls. Among these I distinguished Larus californicus. The majority of the birds were young, hence hard to determine. I also saw 2 Ardea herodias. While crossing the bay I saw a few Larus occidentalis and Larus heermanni. We ran past a flock of gulls on the water off Goat Island. San Francisco to Alameda, Cal. Conditions: - 5:15 P.M. to 6:15 P.M. clear; warm; light wind. I saw a few Larus occidentalis and Larus cali- ifornicus on the trip over. After I got home I saw a good many Passer domestic- cus and one Aplelocoma californica. The latter was busy picking at a pear in a tree and making calls at intervals. When he got through he carefully wipes his beak on a twig and then flew away. July 29, 1904.