August 27, 1907. Alameda to and from San Francisco, Cal. Conditions: Moderate temperature; quite clear; wind W., although not blowing in the early morning. Yesterday morning I saw a flock of about a dozon sandpipers on the beach close to the road. This morning near West Alameda Station I saw a small shore bird, either a sandpiper or a plover. On the sand along the mole in the morning were a great many gulls, all out close to the water's edge and standing on the very shallow water. Yesterday morning I saw an Ardea herodias standing in the water. I caught a fish while I was watching it; showed no alarm over the passing of the tram. In the slough near the roundhouse this morning there were three Symphemia semipalmata. One ran a short distance with wings uplifted and outspread before rising. I rode outside on the ferry boat this morning. Two cormorants, one going SE, the other NW, there seen. They have very peculiar flight; carrying the