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nest on the same island in consecutive years, there is still hope that it may some 

 time be found breeding at least as far north as the Coronados. 



33. Puffinus griseus (Gmelin) 



Sooty Shearwater 



Nectris fuliginosus (1) Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., iv, 1870, p. 79. 



Puffinus griseus (2) Grinnell, Pasadena Acad. Sci., i, 1897, p. 24. (3) Oberholser, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., XXII, 1900, p. 229. (//) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 126. (J) Linton, 

 Condor, xi, 1909, p. 193. (6) Willett, Condor, xii, 1910, pp. 170, 174. (7) Willett, 

 Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 18. (S) Wright and Snyder, Condor, xv, 1913, p. 89. 



This, our commonest shearwater, is found in the channel throughout the 

 year, but is less common during the winter months. It often occurs in company 

 with creatopus and more rarely with opisthomelas. In late spring and early 

 summer Sooty Shearwaters migrate through the channel in flocks numbering 

 tens of thousands, these sometimes taking the greater part of a day to pass a 

 given point. 



34. Oceanodroma kaedingi Anthony 



Kaeding Petrel 

 Oceanodroma kaedingi (i) Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 19. 



The only record for this species is that of an adult male which flew aboard 

 the Fisheries ship "Albatross" near San Clemente Island, March 22, 1904, and 

 was captured by L. H. Miller {1). I am told by the fishermen that at certain 

 times during the winter, small petrels will congregate on the fishing banks in 

 great flocks. As Anthony described this bird from Lower California, and as it 

 breeds to the north of us, it undoubtedly migrates past the islands. 



35. Oceanodroma melania (Bonaparte) 



Black Petrel 



Oceanodroma townsendi (1) Anthony, Auk, xi, 1894, p. 231. (2) A. O. U. Committee, 

 Auk, XII, 1895, p. 168. 



Oceanodroma melania (3) Grinnell, Pasadena Acad. Sci., i, 1897, p. 25. (//) Anthony, 

 Auk, XV, 1898, p. 140. (5) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 3, 1902, p. 16. (G) Brewster, 

 Birds Cape Region Lower Calif., 1902, p. 32. (7) Grinnell and Daggett, Auk, xx, 1903, 

 pp. 30, 37. (<S') Godman, Monog. Petrels, i, 1907, p. 24. (.9) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, 

 p. 82. (10) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 126. {11} Willett, Condor, xii, 1910, p. 174. 

 (12) A. O. U. Check-list, 3d ed., 1910, p. 57. {13} Osburn, Condor, xiii, 1911, p. 31. 

 iU) Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 19. (15) van Rossem, Condor, xvii, 1915, 

 p. 76. (16) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 29. 



OlceanodromaJ. melania (i7) Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., 1903, p. 1043. 



Black Petrel (18) Willett, Condor, xii, 1910, p. 170. 



Breeds on Los Coronados Islands. Fairly common in the channel through- 

 out the year. Under the heading of this species J. Grinnell (5) states that small 

 petrels of some kind were heard at night on the east end of San Nicolas, and at 

 Mosquito Harbor at San Clemente, in May, 1897. In the channel between Cle- 

 mente and Anacapa the species has been recorded commonly, but near none of 



