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Off the coast of southern California Xantus's Murrelet is now known to 

 occur more or less commonly at all seasons from Sau Diego to the Santa 

 Barbara Islands, where it probably breeds. It sometimes ranges still further 

 northward, for Mr. Loomis has reported^ the capture of a single bird near 

 Monterey on July 28, 1894, and I have seven specimens which were taken in 

 the same locality by Mr. Alvin Seale in November and December, 1896, aud 

 January and February, 1897. 



Brachyramphus craveri (Salvad.), 



Craveri"s Mcrrelet. 



Uria craveri Salvadori, Atti See. Ital. Sci. Nat., VIII. 1865, 387-389 (orig. descr. ; 



type from Gulf of California). 

 Brachyrhamphus craveri Codes, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 66 (quotes orig. 



descr. ; crit.). Coues and Streets, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 7, 1877, 32, 33 



(descr. eggs and habits; crit.; Isia Kaza, Gulf of Calif.). Ridgway, Nom. 



N. Ainer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 21 -), 1881, 57, no. 758; Proc.U. S. 



Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 534, footnote (Cape St. Lucas). 

 [Brachyrhamphus] craveri Elliot, Illustr. New and Unfig. N. Amer. Birds, II. 1869, 



introd. (figures head and leg; quotes orig. descr. ; crit.). 

 [Brachyramphus] craveri Gray, Hand-list, III. 1871, 100, no. 10,815. 

 [Synthliborhamphus] wurmizusume CouBS, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 344, part (Cape 



St. Lucas). 

 Syntkliborhamphus wurmizusume CouES, Check List, 1873, 117, no. 628, part 

 Brachyrhamphus craverii Codes, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 132, no. 869. 

 Brachyramphus craverii Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Amer., IL 



1884, 502, 503 (descr.; crit.; figures head, bill, and leg; coast of Gulf of 



Calif.; Island of Natividad). 

 Brachyramphus craveri A. 0. U., Check List, 1886, 81, no. 26. Bryant, Proc. Calif. 



Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 251 (Cape St. Lucas; Natividad Island). 

 B.[rachyrhamphus\ craveriil Codes, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 814 (crit. ; 



figures head and leg; Lower Calif.). 

 B.[rachyrhamphus] craveri Ridgway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 15 (descr. ; 



Cape St. Lucas). 

 Micruria craveri Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus, XXVI. 1898, 595 (descr.; 



near Cape St. Lucas). Axthoxy, Auk, XVII. 1900, 168, 169 (crit). 

 Endumychura craveri Oberholser, Proc. Acad. Nat Sci. Phila., 1899, 201 (new 



genus to include B. hypoleucus and B. craveri). 

 [Micruria] craveri Sharpe, Hand-Ust, I. 1899, 131. 



Mr. Frazar collected no less than . twenty-five specimens of B. craveri, of 

 which fourteen were adults in more or less worn breeding plumage, and eleven 

 young of various ages and both sexes. Of the adults eight were males, and six 

 females. On comparing this fine series with seven specimens of B. hypoleucus 



1 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., V. 1895, 211, 212. 



2 Also printed in Proc. U. S. Nat Mus., III. 1880, 163-246. 



