pany with one or two Larus occidentalis. One of these latter birds was seen sitting flat on the top of a pile a distance south of the slip on the Alameda side; usually one is seen stand- ing here in the evening. In an old corn field containing nothing but stubble and weeds, I observed a flock of about 40 Euphagus cyanoccephalus just alighting this even- ing as the train passed. Aug. 10, 1907. San Francisco from to Alameda, bal. A good many gulls, Larus occidentalis and lighter-mantled ones probably L. califor- nicus and L. delawarensis, are to be seen on the exposed sand at low tide near the mole. A number of Numenius hudsonicus have been seen on the marsh close by, on the sand. The gulls keep close to the water while the curlew do not. This afternoon at 6 o'clock I saw a Nycticorax nycticorax fly over the station.