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the water. On the bay this morning I noted
a few Larus californicus and Larus glauces-
cens following the steamer.
Dec. 11, 1908.
A hunter to-day brought me a drake
Aythya americanad taken in San Leandro
Bay.
Dec. 12, 1908.
A specimen of Recurvirostra americana
was taken in San Leandro Bay to-day. It
was in gray, black, and white plumage;
whether it is the winter plumage or the
immature plumage, I do not know.
Dec. 13, 1908.
This afternoon I went around Bay Farm
Island in the launch. Aside from a flock
of about twenty ducks southward bound high in
the air, I saw only two or three Oidemia deglandi.
An Echmophorus occidentalis was seen, and a
Proctopus nigricollis was taken. Three or
four sandpipers were seen on a mudbank
in a slough. The tide was high. Hunters
were much more abundant than birds.
Two or three days ago I noted a flock
of thirty or forty sandpipers near the roundhouse.
Several gulls are usually seen along the
mole each morning.
Dec. 20, 1908.
This morning we went from the foot of the