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in May, June, July and August, if they do not nest there. But one 

 addition to the b'st of birds published in Mr. Bryant's catalogue was 

 made, the Carolina rail ( Porzana Carolina). A specimen was shot 

 by Mr. W. A. Beeman, head light-keeper, in August, 1890, and is 

 now in his possession mounted. 



It will not be necessary to detain the reader with a narrative ot 

 the remainder of the trip, as nothing new in the way of birds was 

 discovered. Early on the morning of July 6, we received news that 

 the &^^ boat was ready to return, so after hastily packing we soon 

 found ourselves pitching about in a rough sea, en route for San 

 Francisco. 



It may be fitting to close this account of the birds of the Farallones 

 with a word on their geographical distribution in general. The 

 water birds which nest upon these isolated rocks are such species as 

 frequent the rocky islands and mainland of the north Pacific, as far 

 north as Alaska. Indeed, the Farallones appear to mark the south- 

 ern limit of breeding range of one or two species. Mr. Clark P. 

 Streator* has noted the tufted pufiin, Cassin's auklet, western gull, 

 pigeon guillemot and the three cormorants of the Farallones breeding 

 upon the Santa Barbara Islands. Of this number Mr. Bryant, in 

 his Catalogue of the Birds of Lower California'" records Cassin's 

 auklet as breeding as far south as San Geronimo Island (Anthony), 

 and the western gull as breeding on Todos Santos Islands oft 

 Ensenada and upon the Island of San Pedro Martir (Goss). The 

 California guillemot I do not find recorded as breeding south of the 

 Farallons. All three cormorants are found in Lower California and 

 probably all breed from there north to Washington as stated in the 

 A. O. U. Check List.'l The ashy petrel has not been recorded, I 

 believe, as breeding at any point except the Farallones. The com- 



*0. & O. xiii, pp. 53-54. 



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