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for a nesting site. In La P6rouse Strait we next saw this species, 

 and found it common along the cast coast of Sakhalin and across the 

 Okhotsk Sea to the southern Kurils. w here, on October 1 , it was very 

 abundant. On November 11, the first day out of Yokohama, home- 

 ward bound, we again saw the Pacific Fulmar, but only one or two 

 individuals; others were observed on the 12th and 13th, and again on 

 December 10, oil' the California!! coast. 



FULMARUS RODGERSII Cassin. 

 RODGERS' FULMAR. 



Rodgers' Fulmar was identified with certainty only on a few occa- 

 sions, and only between Vancouver Island and CJnalaska. A fine 

 example came within a few feet of me when I was out in a small 

 boat 70 miles west of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and several were 

 seen in the wake of the ship in company with F. glacialis glupischa. 



Subfamily IM HFF] X I X . K. 



PUFFINUS GRISEUS (Gmelin). 



SOOTY SHEARWATER. 



On September 26, when southeast of Cape Patience, Sakhalin, a 

 number of these birds were observed. I have no other records. 



PUFFINUS TENUIROSTRIS ( Temminck i. 

 SLENDER-BILLED SHEARWATER. TSCHORNIJ GLUPISCH. 



I saw' this bird only once, on September 30, in the Okhotsk Sea, 

 near the southern Kurils. 



PUFFINUS LEUCOMELAS Temminck. 

 TEMMINCKS SHEARWATER. 



This was the only sea-bird seen in t he Japan Sea, where it appeared 

 to be not uncommon. We rarely saw more than six or eight in a 

 day, however, hut this was probably due to the fact that, like Pi<>- 

 inidni dlbafntft, i In-: species will nol ordinarily come near a ship, 

 acting rather as if repelled by its presence. We found this bird in 

 every part of the Japan Sea south of the straits of Tsugaru; about 

 Sado and the Oki Islands, Matsushinia, and along the Korean coast. 

 South of the Korean Straits it became rather more common, espe- 

 cially among the Linschoten [slands. From Kagoshima to Yoko- 

 hama along the southern coast of Japan we found this species in 



considerable [lumbers, especially off the little harbor at Oshima Ko, 

 where we saw flocks of fifty or more individuals. We did not meet 

 with this bird easi of Sagami Bay. 



