Alameda, California. A flock of This morning about a dozen geese flew over the house in a southwesterly formation. My adult Snow Goose (Chen hyperboreus) called to them three or four times. At the foot of the street this afternoon at low tide I saw several Larus californicus. At a distance I saw several terns or small gulls, March 1, 1909. Alameda to San Francisco, California. This morning there were quite a lot of ducks spread all along the mole. The following were recognized: Aristonetta valisineria, Scarp dicks, 3 or 4 Oedemia perspicillata, and 1 Merganser serrator. I saw a loon close to the rocks, and I think it was Columbus pacificus; it was bathing and did not seem to mind the tram. This evening gulls were very common on the San Francisco side of the bay, Larus glancensens and Larus californicus being seen. Not infrequently one or two of the former will be standing on the lower deck of the steamer before it leaves. I saw a flock of twenty or thirty on the water and a crowder about the Alameda mole.