and Limnoptes minutilla, although none were shot. Sandpipers nowhere near as abundant as earlier. Also very wild. Ardea herodias. A few. All over. Ducks. A few, aside from scoters, both flying flocks and on water. Caught a wounded female Aristonetta valisineria, and saw a Querquedula cyanoptera (?). Others I could not identify. Scoters were fairly common south of Bay Farm Island; those close enough for identification were Oedemia deglandi. Buteo borealis. One. A large reddish hawk with white rump patch in marsh, presume it is this species. October 28, 1909. 4001 Pelidna alfina $ Alameda California, Oct. 27, 1909; C. A. S. No. 4002 " " $ " " " " C. A. S. No. 4003 Proctopus nigricollis $ " " " " C. A. S. No. 4004 " " $ " " " " C. A. S. No. 4005 Netrium carolinense $ " " " " C. A. S. No. 4006 Rallus obsoletus $ " " " " C. A. S. No. 4007 Aristonetta valisineria $ " " " " C. A. S. No. November 3, 1909. Around Bay Farm Island, Alameda County, California. In the deep slough I saw one bird—a grebe, which poked its head above the water two or three times. Grebes. Shot six Proctopus nigricollis and saw a number of others. Four of the six were daubed with coal tar.