38. March 18, 1909. Alameda to San Francisco, California. When going to the train this morning, I saw Two Spinus pinus on a telephone wire, one Aphelocoma californica, and the usual Passer Domesticus. These birds are not as abundant now about the aviaries as they were during the rainy season. Doubtless they are beginning to nest now. These little fects will even take wheat out of shallow water, where I put it for the ducks. Along the seawall west of Fifth Street Station a flock of some twenty male and female Oedemia perspicillata started up as the train passed. The drakes were especially conspicuous owing to the white patches on their heads. On the water south of the mole, quite a few gulls and ducks were seen. The latter were mostly Scaup ducks. March 19, 1909. Alameda to San Francisco, California. Along the mole this morning I saw the following anserine birds: Aristonetta nalisneria, Scaup ducks, Clangula Clangula (one), Scoters, Oedemia perspicillata, and Mergus serrator (one drake). March 20, 1909. Alameda to San Francisco, California. In the night near the roundhouse this morning