ing, it was foggy in Alameda and clear on the bay. Yesterday morning it was foggy between Goat Island and San Francisco. This morning when about off Goat Island I saw two ducks going southward. quite high in the air. Yesterday morning and the morning before there were three or four hundred sandpipers and, a good many gulls (apparently Larus californicus) on the sand exposed near the roundhouse. The sandpipers all flew up, (also many of the gulls), one flock passing over the train towards Oakland Creek. On the day before yesterday at about noon when be- tween San Francisco and Goat Island on my way to Berkeley, I saw a good many Larus californi- cus (the adults all in winter plumage) both fly- ing and on the water. It was a beautiful calm noon tide with scarcely a bit of wind; the gulls being on the water in the rippled parts where there was no oil. When returning about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, it was quite windy