Route, time, and conditions same as yesterday. Saw a male Passer domesticus fly up to a nest on a house as I was going to the train. Along the mole and seagull ducks were abundant. On the beach near the roundhouse there were two or three hundred sandpipers, along the mole a few gulls. Larus glaucescens followed the boat a- cross in great numbers, many sitting on the hurricane deck, two always sitting on the two flagpoles aft. A good many Larus califor- nicus flew past us just off the mole. Two flocks of Phalacrocorax one of about thirty, the other eleven, passed us off Goat Island; they were going NW. Two or three other flocks were seen in the dis- tance. A few loons also passed in the same direction. There were only a few Larus canus or Larus brachyrynchus on the San Francisco side. Gulls were abundant on the roofs of the various wharves. In the evening Larus glaucescens and Larus canus or Larus brachyrynchus were abundant on the San Francisco side. Many of the former followed us across. A few Larus californicus were seen. When off Alameda mole fifteen loons passed to the southeast all flying high. Ducks were abundant along the mole; one grebe was seen. One Ardea herodias was seen on a pile near the roundhouse. Mr. M.O. Feudner of San Francisco tells me he got seven Mareca penelope out of a flock of sixteen at the Sink of Outah Creek in Yolo- county, Cal., in 1887. He also says that he saw several in the market last year. Dendrocygna fulva. Mr. Feudner said that at the opening of the season Oct. 15, 1904, there was a flock of twenty five of