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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY 



SCI ENCES. 



CALIFORNIA WATER BIRDS. No. II.— VICINITY OF 

 MONTEREY IN MIDWINTER.* 



BY LEVERETT M. LOOMIS, 



Curator of the Department of Ornithology. 



[ With Plate i. ] 



The present paper is based on observations made 

 between the nth of December, 1894, and the 13th of 

 January, 1895. As upon former occasions, a little cove 

 at the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory was the starting point 

 in my dajly excursions on the bay and ocean. The Lab- 

 oratory was again the place of indoor work, one of the 

 buildings, through the courtesy of the directors, being 

 used to prepare specimens in. According to local infor- 

 mation the weather was unusually stormy during my 

 visit. This, however, was not a drawback, for there was 

 only one day when it was deemed unsafe to venture out 

 on the water. There were a few days when the sea was 

 as calm as any time in summer. Although it was the 

 rainy season (it rained on fourteen days of my stay), the 

 climate was more agreeable than in summer, as there 



* Pages 1-14 read at the Thirteenth Congress of the American Ornithol- 

 ogists' Union, held in Washington, D. C, Nov. 11-14, 1895. 

 Proc. Ca L . Acad. Sci., 2d Ser., Vol. VI. February 21, 1896. 



