Yesterday morning a flock of about fifty Chen hyperboreus passed over high in the air. They were going northward and honking loudly. Briggs Avenue, Alameda, Cal. April 17, 1911. This morning early a flock of thirty or forty cormorants (probably Phalacrocorax auritus) flew over the house to the south. April 21, 1911. Alameda to San Francisco, California. Off Goat Island aloon in winter dress dried as the steamer overtook it. It was probably Columbus pacificus. In the evening saw one fine adult Larus occidentalis among the adult Larus californicus on the bay. April 22, 1911. Alameda to San Francisco, Calif. A.M. This morning there were a good many shore birds in the marsh along First Street and in the mud near the car shops—saw pipers, snipes, Limosa fedoa, and curlew apparently Numenius hudsonicus. Along the mole a few distant ducks. On the bay very few birds followed the steamer. All seen on the bay were Larus californicus, mostly fine adults. Several faded out immature Larus glaucescens on piles on