148 Notestaken 1900 A.D. Oct-22. A yg. Comorant roasted on top of my house last night. It seemed dazed and allowed me to capture it but pecked at my hand while I was doing so. I fed it some flax and some cooked meat and bone. It swallowed a piece of meat and bone over two inches long; it also picked up from they yard a piece of onion skin and other things and ate them with evident relish. It had great difficulty in swallowing the large piece of meat and bone. Aug-14. Many thousands and perhaps hundreds of thousands of sea-birds were seen off the coast at Moss Landing. They were evidently following the pathway of an immense school fish; as there were thousands upon thousands of pardsies strewn along the edges of the sloughs about the Landing. Saw also a flock of about a dozen large waders near the Landing. They may have been