Bird Notes: Aviary birds of the San Francisco Bay Region, v4289
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Tringoides macularius. One on beach. Eating from mass of seaweed. Oxycichus vociferus. Four together on beach, among masses of seaweed. Aegialitis miosa. Three or four singly. Phalaropus hyperboreus. One on beach. Flew when approached and alighted farther down the beach. Cormorants. On outlying rocks as usual, and flying. Hawks. A small hawk over Point Sur Station itself. This afternoon I went over to the Little Sur River via the old stage road. Along the rocky coast just south of point that marks the end of the Little Sur Beach there was a flock of Arenaria melanocophala - 8 or 10 altogether. They were observed not only on the rocks but on the bear small black-sand beach and on a great mass of seaweed which was piled up on the shore many feet deep in one place. On the beach of the Little Sur I saw 15 or 20 Aegialitis miosa. They seemed a little wilder than last time and many stayed down on the damp beach instead of far back amongst the driftwood. Several Lophortyx californicus were observed in the lupine on the hillsides near the sand flat. Two or three hawks of various sizes were seen along the old road, and also the usual finches, of which Zonotrichia leucophrys was recognized. On Point Sur I saw the usual Zonotrichia leucophrys, and a Sayornis saya on the road. On a grassy flat spot on the northeast side of the sand flat I saw quite a flock of Otocorys alpestreis. September 17, 1891. At Point Sur itself I saw several Zonotrichia leucophrys and