blangula blangula. Two. Erismatura jamaicensis. A few. Nycticorax nycticorax. One passed over the house early in the morning. Ardea herodias. One or two. Actodromas minutilla. Common. Crexetes occidentalis. Felidna alpina. A few. Squatorola helvetica. Common. The following land birds were seen:- Bolaptes cafer. One. Aphelocoma californica. One. Passer domesticus Euphagus cyanoccephalus. Dendroica anduboni. Anthusspensilvonicus. FEB 17 1905 Alameda, bal. to and from San Francisco, Cal. 7:00 A.M. to 8:00 A.M. and 6:15 P.M. to 5:40 P.M. Conditions:- East wind; raining; and moderate temperature in the morning. In the evening, clear, no wind, warm. There were quite a few ducks along the seawall and an abundance of them along the mole. Just after we had left the mole three Aythya marila passed along in a northerly direction. There was quite a movement among the loons, thirty or forty being seen going northward. Until we reached Goat Islands, Larus californicus predominated, there being about twelve follow.