August 4, 1908. Alameda to and from San Francisco, bal. Overcast; moderate temperature; westerly wind. On the sand near the roundhouse and in the shallow water there were numbers of gulls (I recognized an adult Larus occidentalis), and one or two Ardea herodias, and a few large shore birds, apparently Cunnenius hudsonicus. Both in the morning and evening a Heteractitis incanus flew out from the rocks of the mole as the train passed. On the bay I saw several Larus heermanni and Larus occidentalis. Sept. 19, 1908. San Francisco to Alameda, bal. Overcast; moderate temperature; SW wind; about 5:15 P.M. I came across on the after deck of the ferry boat. Two Larus heermanni, and a few Larus californicus, immature and adult (the latter with streaked heads) were seen. Several of the latter made occasional half-hearted attempts towards following the steamer. Some were flying very high. During the past month I have noted as many as a dozen gut Ardea herodias in the night near the roundhouse at one time. Stulls have also been very abundant at ebb tide on the sand along the mole; usually they were too distant to determine. Yesterday morning at 8:40 A.M. I saw a Strix pratincola flying about at Jones & Sacramento Sts., San Francisco.