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Breeds in Arctic regions of North America, Europe, and Asia. 

 Occurs as a migrant on both coasts of North America. Recorded 

 rarely on the southern California coast. 



SHORT-TAILED ALBATROSS 



(82. Diomedea albatrus) 36 in. 



White, except brownish gray primaries and tail, and straw-colored 

 head and bill. 



Range : North Pacific Ocean. Many records for ocean off southern 

 California coast. 



RODGERS FULMAR 



(86.1. Fulmarus rodgersi) 18 in. 



Like white phase of the Pacific Fulmar, with which it may be 

 identical, though recognized in bird literature as a distinct species. 



Their winter ranges are the same and nesting-range nearly so. 



W. V. Coast of southern California. 



SLENDER-BILLED SHEARWATER 



(96. Puffinus tenuirostris) 13 in. 



A small, all-dark Shearwater, so closely like the Sooty species that 

 field identification is impossible. In hand it is notably smaller, darker, 

 and bill much smaller. 



Migrant. Our rarest Shearwater. Nests on islands about Australia, 

 Tasmania, and New Zealand. Migrates northward through western 

 Pacific to Bering Sea in summer, returning mostly in Nov.-Dec. off 

 the North American coast. 



KAEDING PETREL 



(105.2. Oceanodroma kaedingi) 8| in. 



Sooty brownish black above; sooty brown below; lesser wing- 

 coverts gray-brown; upper tail-coverts more or less gray or whitish. 



California. Nests on islands from central coast to northwestern 

 ^Vashington. Occurs off whole coast in migrations. 



ASHY PETREL 



(108. Oceanodroma homochroa) 8| in. 



Smoky-plumbeous, with wing-coverts lighter and browner; ashy on 

 rump and upper tail-coverts; a whitish patch on under side of wing. 



Nests on Farallon Islands, also (doubtfully) on northern Santa 

 Barbara Islands about which it has been recorded several times. 



