42, and two or three Scamps feeding on the sand. In the water about the usual numbers of Scoters and Scamps were seen. One Aechmophorus occidentalis was seen near the western end of the (mole. This evening while crossing the bay, east- bound, gulls were common, Larus Californicus being a little commoner than Larus glaucescens. I saw a small gull, apparently Larus brachyrynchus near the San Francisco Ferry Building. The Larus californicus are mostly all adults without speckled heads. I have heard them make high piping calls lately; perhaps it is sort of a mating song. I saw one Oedemia perspicillata northbound and seven ducks and one cormorant south- bound. It was high tide this evening, and I saw quite a few ducks on the water along the mole. Close to the rocks was a high drake Oedemia perspicillata. I saw another Aechmophorus occidentalis. A cormorant was seen busily engaged in taking a bath as the train passed; it was flapping its wings in the water just as a duck does. March 26, 1909. Alameda to San Francisco, California. This morning the tide was low. Along the seawall west of Fifth Street Station there were about a