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August 15, 1909.
Alameda, Cal.
Shot a young albino Passer domesticus
in the back yard to-day.
3904 Passer domesticus; ♀ Alameda, Cal.; August 15, 1909; C.A.S. No.
August 17, 1909.
San Leandro Bay, sloughs, and straits between Alameda
and Bay Farm Island, Alameda Co., Cal.
I saw three or four large flocks of shore birds,
mostly of sandpipers and of Sypnhenia semipalmata.
Rallus obsoletus. Shot one which stood out on mud
watching us while shooting sandpipers. Flushed two
others.
Larus californicus. Several. Shot three immature ones,
Squatarola helvetica. A few.
Aegialeus semipalmatus. Several.
Numenius hudsonicus. A few; Possibly also
Numenius longirostris.
Symphebia semipalmata. Very common.
Macrorhamphus griseus. Several.
Ereunetes pusillus. Very common. Except two, all of
the sandpipers I shot were of this species.
Slinonites
Actobomas minutilla. Two shot.
Nycticorax nycticorax. Two or three.
Ardea herodias. A few.
Cormorants (probably Phalocrocorax auritus). A flock
of nine passed high over head south of Alameda.
Saw three or four flying over marsh.
Melospiza cinerea. Several in marsh.