38. a much lower level than the greater numbers of the vanguard. Gulls were very abundant in the evening. Larus glance scens and Larus californicus flying about the vessels in considerable numbers and in the same proportions as usual. Off the San Francisco water front a short distance were a couple of hundred Larus philadelphia; most of them fluttering and wheeling about of the water in the effort to satisfy their ever - ravenous appetites. Their graceful evolutions made those of the larger gulls appear clumsy in comparison I got off at Fifth St. Stations and walked over to Pacific Avenue this evening. Curlew were passing over the town to the southward in considerable numbers, all calling. They went in pairs and in flocks of 6 or 8 or 10. Yesterday morning when near the outer end of the mole a ceryle alcyon was noted flying westward parallel to the mole. Apr. 23, 1907. Conditions Alameda to and from San Francisco, Cal.