Feb. 5, 1908. Conditions:- Overcast in morning; moderate Temperature; light winds. Along the aside this morning were a good many ducks close in, "sisters" small bunches of Scamp Ducks and an oc- casional Clangula clangula being seen. Some dived, none flew. Off at a distance there was a very large flock on the water. Several small grebes and a loon were also noted on the water. On the exposed sand a small bunch of sandpipers were noted. Gulls (Larus glaucuscens and Larus californicus) followed the steamer as usual on the trip across. This evening the two above species and several Larus canus or Larus brachy- rhynchus were seen as usual in front of the Ferry Bldg. No gulls were noted flying over the city, although I did not keep an especial lookout on the way to the ferry. (While east of Goat Island this evening a loon and a bunch of several Scamp Ducks, apparently Fuligula marila, passed to the southward. Two Scamp Ducks were seen going northward.