74. two or three being of the former being observed on the piles at Alameda mole, at quite a remote distance from road and trains, however, I have noted three or four smaller gulls with lighter mantles during the past three or four days. This morning I saw a Heteractitis incanus fly up from the rocks along the western end of the mole, July 24, 1907. Alameda to and from San Francisco, Cal. Conditions: - Overcast; W Wind; moderate temperature. At the foot of Briggs Ave., Alameda, I observed this morning at low tide a number of large shore birds feeding. They were either curlew or godwit. On the sand exposed along the mole were a hundred or so gulls closely bunched together; apparently nearly all were adult Larus occidentalis. Yesterday morning an adult Larus heermanni was seen running away from the mole as the train passed. On the bay in the morning and evening, occasional adult Larus occidentalis and Larus heermanni were seen, sometimes on the water. One or two