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August 7, 1907, and attention is called to a previous overlooked record 

 for the California coast made by the late George N. Lawrence in Vol. IX 

 of the Pacific R. R. Survey Reports (1858, p. 838). The specimen, form- 

 erly in the Lawrence collection, is still extant in the American Museum of 

 Natural History. The species, however, is not recorded for the Pacific 

 coast in any of the editions of the A. O. U. Check-List. 



Larus can us is again recorded for California, but, as in previous in- 

 stances, doubtless on a misidentification of L. brachyrhynchus, which is 

 not given, though a common species on the California coast in winter. 



It is interesting to note that a small breeding colony of the Least Tern 

 is reported as occurring at Moss, near the mouth of the Salinas River. 

 Fvlmarus rodgersi is confessedly recorded as F. glacialisl In the A. O. U. 

 Check-List (3d ed.) Puffinus bullcri is recorded as: "Range. — New Zea- 

 land; north casually to California." Mr. Beck says: "Ten specimens 

 have been taken by me in fall off Point Pinos, double the number recorded 

 from New Zealand seas in Godman's 'Monograph of the Petrels.'" The 

 Black Petrel (Oceanodroma melania) was found at frequent intervals and 

 specimens taken from May 27 to September 14, 1907, though apparently 

 not previously recorded north of the Santa Barbara Islands. 



A species new to the North American fauna added by Mr. Beck is the 

 Pink-footed Shearwater (Puffinus carneipes Gould), a bird not previously 

 reported from the American side of the Pacific, of which Mr. Beck has 

 taken ten specimens near Point Pinos, the first November 23, 1903, the 

 second November 24, 1904, and others in February, April, June, August, 

 September, and November, 1907. 



Mr. Beck states that he has "freely incorporated" observations made 

 by Mr. Loomis in his series of well-known papers on California water- 

 birds, and a number of the species are given on this basis, so that while 

 the present list is mainly a summary of Mr. Beck's own work, it also 

 includes species found by Mr. Loomis that the author of the paper failed 

 to meet with. — J. A. A. 



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