142. on the water in front of the ferry slips on the San Francisco side. One or two were young. Ducks. Several were seen flying high in the air. Two or three days ago I saw a flock of birds going southward at a great height in the air. They were in V-formation, and were probably ducks or geese. Cormorants. Three or four flying low over the bay, in customary manner; body being slightly elevated. Alameda, Seal. At the same place on central Avenue that I have seen them for 2 or 3 Sundays, I saw this morning about 8 o'clock a considerable number of Euphagus cyanocephalus. In my back yard this afternoon I saw several Zonotrichia leucophrys; two or three Dendroica dundubii in not particularly high-plumage, and one or two Astragalinus. It was very cold early this afternoon. December 16, 1907. Alameda to and from San Francisco, cal. Conditions: - Cold; overcast; no wind in particular; 9 a.m. Along the mole there were a few ducks and grebes and cormorants, and off a ways two or three large compact flocks of ducks on the water. On the bay I saw three half a dozen or so ducks flying northward. Larus glaucescens was abundant on the bay, adults & young following the