145 Dec. 22, 1907. Alameda, bal. Conditions: - About 7:30 A.M. clear; cool; east wind. When on Park street this morning I noted several gulls flying in a northwesterly direction over the town. This afternoon I saw several Passer domesticus feeding in a pear tree (now leafless) near the house. They were feeding on the limbs and twigs, what they were eating I do not know. Dec. 25, 1907. Alameda to and from San Francisco, bal. Conditions: - Overcast; cold; N. wind; went & city on 7:40 A.M. train, returned on 12:45 boat. Gulls were very abundant about all of five marships; along the mole an occasional gull, duck, and gube was seen. Yesterday morning I saw near the roundhouse a flock of thirty or forty sandpipers. I also saw a Phalacrocorax diplotus close to the mole. This morning the following species were observed. Grebes. One or two small sides along the mole. Yes- terday morning I saw an Aechmophorus occidentalis. Larus philadelphia. Two near Alameda mole. Larus occidentalis. One, joined the Glaucous-winged Gulls following the steamer as we neared the city. Larus argentatus. Three or four. One following the steamer with Larus glaucescens; and one or two on