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30.
Sterna forsteri. Common. Saw a flock of about thirty
fishing in the sloughs late in the afternoon. Calling.
Larus philadelphia. Two or three.
Large gulls. Quite a few. Apparently Larus californicus.
Arenaria interpres. Flock of twenty-five or thirty on
south side of island. Three on hard dry mud
bank in slough near old railroad line.
Squatarola belletica. Fairly common. Flock of
about twenty on south side of island.
Argialetis sempalmatus. Here and there one
or two.
(Limosina fedoa. One in abraded winter plumage.
Macrorhamphus groesus. A few. All red.
Ereunetes pusillus. Fairly common, although
rapidly decreasing in numbers since the first of
the week.
Oelidna alpina. Several.
Calidris arenaria. Three, possibly four. Shot three.
High-plumaged, while those taken on the 1st were
moulting and their sexual organs were not fully
eularged.
Numenius hudronicus. Common. Late in the
afternoon I saw two or three flocks high in
the air calling and flying westward.
Ardea herodias. Two or three.
Nycticorax nycticorax. Quite a few.
Fuligula marila (?). Three.
Bormorants. Two, evidently Phalacrocoras auritus flew
over when I was on the beaches.