102 BULLETIN 121, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Since the above statements were made Mr. Eollo H. Beck has 

 taken 15 specimens of this rare bird off Point Pinos. Mr. Loomis 

 (1918) quotes from his notes, as follows: 



1907. In February I returned to Point Finos to spend a year endeavoring 

 to replace in some degree tlie acadeniy's water bird collection destroyed in 

 the great fire of 1906. giving especial attention to the Tubinares. Not till 

 September 2 did I. see a BuUers' shearwater. On that day I went out on 

 Monterey Bay three or more miles to the northeast of Point Pinos and found 

 a large number of black-vented and sooty shearwaters fishing. The weather 

 was propitious, there being only a light breeze. As I rowed along from one 

 flock to another, a flesh-footed shearwater flew over my head from behind and 

 was shot. A few minutes afterward, as 1 proceeded leisurely, being then about 

 four miles north of Point Pinos, I saw a lone Buller's shearwater fishing with 

 a few Spanish mackerel. As the fish 'went down the shearwater lit one hun- 

 dred and fifty yards away from the boat. I rowed with all my might but the 

 bird arose out of range. As it circled, seventy yards distant, I fired, but merely 

 caused it to settle for a few moments, only a single shot probably hitting it. 

 As the bird shook its wings and rose I fired both barrels and stopped it again. 

 When I came up within long range it started off once more, but this time I 

 secured it. 



On November 4 I went out seven or eight miles north of Point Pinos and 

 finally reached the gathering of shearwaters I was looking for. There were 

 about twenty thousand sooty, two hundred or more black-vented, and about 

 thirty Cooper's shearwaters. They were scattered about over considerable 

 water, and as I approached one of the larger bunches I saw two Buller's 

 shearwaters fly around it and enter the bay. Farther on I discovered one on 

 the water apart from a flock of sooty shearwaters, and I secured it. Another 

 was seen sitting in the midst of a flock of sooty shearwaters. Another still was 

 sitting close to two of these shearwaters. It decoyed to a dead bird thrown 

 into the air, but unfortunately was missed with my first barrel and escaped, 

 my other barrel being out of commission. Later in the day I secured a second 

 specimen of Buller's shearwater from the concourse of shearwaters. I also 

 obtained from it two flesh-footed and a slender-billed, the only ones noted. 



On November 8 about four miles north of Point Pinos a single Buller's shear- 

 water, in worn plumage, was seen flying about in search of food, but too far 

 away to be secured. 



1909. I spent the last four months of 1909 in collecting on the bay and ocean 

 adjacent to Point Pinos. On October 9 I got out about four miles northeast 

 of Point Pinos and found a few sooty and Cooper's shearwaters in bunches 

 on the water. The first flock of these shearwaters I neared rose out of gun- 

 shot range, and with them a Buller's shearwater. Tliey all flew north and 

 appeared to settle in the far distance. I rowed in their direction and presently 

 a Cooper's shearwater flew past me, and shortly after a Buller's, which I shot. 

 An hour later I approached a flock of shearwaters on the water, but they rose 

 when 100 yards distant and flew to the northward. With them were two 

 Buller's shearwaters. As the weather was not settled and as I was alone as 

 usual in a rowboat I followed no farther. 



On the 13th of October when I was out about four miles north of Point 

 Pinos a Buller's shearwater came along, going south. It swung up 20 yards 

 astern of the boat, and I shot it. October 15 there was a low fog all day, and 

 part of the time a drizzle. I went out about five miles northeast of Point 

 Pinos and found a few Cooper's shearwaters fishing about, and working out 





