January 2, 1910. Saw Leandro Bay, and through sloughs to south shore of Bay Farud Island, Alameda Co., California Gulls. A few large ones at a distance at times. Sandpipers. Several single birds and two or three flocks, the largest containing probably thirty birds. They looked to be Limonites minutilla. Saw two or three larger ones, probably Celidno alpina. Ducks. Saw two or three small flocks flying. (Hunters were very abundant.) Several Ilangula clangula were seen closely enough to be identified: cormorants. A few. One which came quite close was a Phalacro- orax duritus with a whitish patch of feathers on its breast. I think that all we saw were of this species. Melopijia cinerea. Several. Late this afternoon I saw about a dozen large gulls circling high in the air above San Leandro Bay. January 9, 1910. For three or four mornings past I have seen very large flocks of ducks on the water south of the hole. Last evening when coming down Briggs Avenue, I heard a Nycticorax nycticorax call.