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southward from the Cliff House the largest victims of the storm 
which I found were short-tailed albatrosses (measuring a yard in 
length), birds which are supposed to be able to outride the rough- 
est weather, but may have been caught in a breaking wave and thus 
perished, for they were heavy birds and in good condition. The 
smaller species may have met their death in a similar way or have 
been injured by flying against lighthouses or the set lights of ves- 
sels. Others may have been slightly wounded from gun shots and 
unable to cope with unusual weather. 
It is notable that no land birds have been found dead even after 
storms occurring during the migrations. 
The following nineteen species have been found upon the ocean 
beach of San Francisco County, others are known to have been taken 
at different places along the entire coast. For some of these names 
_ I am indebted to Mr. Keeler, who has several times patrolled the 
beach after a winter storm. The species are mentioned in some- 
thing like the order of their numerical presence upon the sands. 
Pacific Fulmar, Glaucous-winged Gull, 
Western Gull, Black-throated Loon. 
Cassin’s Auklet, Brandt’s Cormorant, 
California Gull, Short-billed Gull, 
Pigeon Guillemot, Bonaparte’s Gull, 
California Murre, White-winged Scoter, 
Rhinoceros Auklet, Ruddy Duck, 
Black-footed Albatross, Western Grebe, 
Short-tailed Albatross, Dark-bodied Shearwater, 
Pomarine Jaeger. 
RECENT LITERATURE. 
On the Fate of the Quadrate in Mammals;* by R. Brown, M.B., 
C.M., B.Sc. The author disagrees with all previous anatomists, 
who find the homologue of the missing quadrate bone in mammals. 
in one of the auditory ossicles, and gives his reasons for substituting _ 
_ the “ Interarticular Cartilage” as the homologue. Although this the-— 
ory seems far more plausible than any previously advanced, more 
. evidence i is necessary to confirm it. ‘ Should the Pideaice makes Des 
. ee and Magazine of Natural History; vi, No, 35 P- 409. 
