Bird Notes: Aviary birds of the San Francisco Bay Region, v4289
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on San Francisco side. This morning I saw a Melospiza cimerea on front lawn. April 23, 1911. Alameda, Calif. (San Leandro Bay and south shore). Larus californicus. Several immature ones in San Leandro Bay. Larus philadelphia. Quite a few, mostly black- headed; flying and on mud and sand along Channel at low tide. Sterna forsteri (?). Saw one; heard others. Shore birds. A few Common on mud and also flying, particularly along south shore. Macrorhamphus griseus. Common in red plumage. Sandpipers. Several small flocks. Cormorants. Several small companies of Phalacrocorax auritus, mostly with cream- colored breasts. April 25, 1911. Every evening I have seen several large flocks of shore birds (evidently Numenius hudsonicus) flying eastward over Alameda. I have been at High Street each time they were seen. On the bay this evening five adult Larus californicus were common on the San Francisco side. April 27, 1911. Alameda to San Francisco, California. This morning there was a strong southwest