Bird Notes: Aviary birds of the San Francisco Bay Region, v4289
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53. They were also on the mud bank with the terns. They were nearly all immature and in worn plumage, some having black feathers coming in on the head. I saw one black-headed adult only. Numenius hudsonicus. One. Shore birds. I saw several other shore birds. Two or three were large, apparently curlew or godwit. Three or four appeared to be either knots or dowitchess, while three or four others appeared to be Sguatarola helvetica, in fact I think I heard this last species call. All were quite distant; some on mud. Ardea herodias. Three or four. Wary. Flying when approached; uttering the usual Marsh croaks of alarm when arising. Nycticorax nycticorax. Two or three flying. high in air over bay. Cynopaus cyanecephalus. Several on lawns in Alameda. 3757 Larus philadelphia ♂ Alameda, bal.; June 10, 1908; b. A.S. No. 3758 Sterna forsteri ♀ 3759 Larus philadelphia ♀ 3760 ♂ 3761 ♂ June 14, 1908. In the yard next door to my home I observed an Icterus Bullocki in a pear tree this afternoon late. On the south side of Bay Farm Island to-day