January 25, 1909. Alameda to San Francisco, california. 7:30 to 8:00 A.M. Rainy, cool, very strong southeast wind. When going to the train I saw a Pipilo fuscus with a deformed foot, probably it had been shot. Along the seawall, and mole ducks were common although their numbers have de- creased during the past weeks; probably owing to the rough weather; some, in close to the mole, were Scaup Ducks. On the bay no gulls followed us until on the San Francisco side, when two or three of both Larus glaucous and Larus californicus followed in a desultory fashion. Gulls were seen at a distance all the way across. They would sail abeam the wind and down the wind just like shearwaters, making great sweeping arcs and then wheeling with wing almost cutting the water. When I came out of the Ferry Building I saw seven gulls working south over the city, and later in the morning at Gough Street I saw a Larus californicus proceeding very slowly south against the wind. This evening there were a number of Larus glaucous and Larus californicus about the San Francisco ferry ship. Just as the boat started out I saw a string of some twenty black birds flying slowly south close to the water; they may have been shearwaters.