January 6, 1909. Larus glanccescens is now common on the piling of the ferry slips in San Francisco. This morning I noted a number of them, mostly immature in mottled brown plumage, however. Mr. Adolph Uhl told me that a Japanese Nightingale ( ) escaped from his aviary about a year ago, and was not seen until a short time ago. Now it stays about the aviary, attracted apparently by the caged ones. Could this bird have gone north and returned, or is it another bird escaped from someone else's aviary? January 10, 1909. Early in the afternoon I crossed the bay to San Francisco. It was a beautiful clear day with a northerly wind. Ducks were not as abundant along the mole as they had been the few days before. On the bay a few gulls followed the steamer; they were chiefly Larus glanccescens, young and old; occasional adult Larus californicus appeared, among them. Yes- terday I saw a fine Odenula perpicillata on the water east of the pier. January 12, 1909. Flocks of sandpipers are not infrequent in the light near the roundhouse. This morning I saw a flock of some twenty. January 15, 1909. For the past three or four days it has been