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1995 and in Washington from 1979 to 1995 were 

 provided by the USFWS and Tenyo Maru Trustee 

 Council. Administrative assistance was provided by B. 

 Hesselbart, J. E. Houk, J. Kincheloe, P. Sekora, and J. 

 Welch. Significant assistance with surveys or 

 photograph counting in Oregon were provided by J. 

 Anderson, M. Naughton, D. Pitkin, and S. Reimer. 

 Assistance with historical literature and unpublished 

 data in Oregon and Washington was provided by R. 

 Bayer. F. Dobler. M. Graybill, J. Hodder, D. B. Marshall, 

 R. L. Pitman. S. M. Speich, D. Varoujean, and T. R. Wahl. 



Funding and support for murre and other seabird 

 colony surveys in British Columbia from 1980 to 1989 

 were provided by Environment Canada (Canadian 

 Wildlife Service, and Conservation and Protection), 

 especially with 1989 funding for murre studies at 

 Triangle Island related to the Nestucca oil spill, and 

 with administrative assistance by S. Garnham, G. Kaiser, 

 S. Wetmore. and K. Vermeer. Significant assistance with 

 surveys and design was provided by D. Bertram. B. 

 Carter, D. Gamier, A. J. Gaston, D. Grinnell, M. Lemon. 

 D. Powell, G. E. J. Smith, and K. Summers. Surveys in 

 the 1970s were funded by Royal British Columbia 

 Museum: British Columbia Ministry of Environment, 

 Lands and Parks: and Parks Canada. Assistance with 

 historical literature, unpublished data, and unpublished 

 egg records was provided by C. Adkins, R. W. Campbell, 

 A. Dorst, C. J. Guiguet, G. Kaiser, M. C. E. McNall, and 

 S. G. Sealy. Also, R. W. Campbell provided certain colony 

 photographs in Appendix I. We lament the tragic death 

 of A. Vallee. who studied murres and other seabirds at 

 Triangle Island in 1980-82. 



Valuable historical egg records in California, 

 Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia were 

 obtained from collections at Humboldt State University 

 (Department of Wildlife Museum; Arcata, California), 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard University, 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts), National Museum of 

 Natural History (Washington, D.C.), Royal British 

 Columbia Museum (Victoria, British Columbia), San 

 Diego Museum of Natural History (San Diego. 

 California), Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 

 (Santa Barbara, California), University of British 

 Columbia Zoology Museum (Vancouver, British 

 Columbia), University of California (Museum of 

 Vertebrate Zoology; Berkeley, California), and 

 especially the Western Foundation of Vertebrate 

 Zoology (Camarillo. California). 



Comments on Appendix B were provided by D. G. 

 Ainley, G. J. McChesney, M. W. Parker, W. D. Shuford, 

 L. E. Stenzel, W. J. Sydeman. and P. White. Valuable 

 unpublished field notes containing historical 



information on murre colonies in California included 

 C. I. Clay (Humboldt State University, Special 

 Collections Library, Arcata, California), H. L. Cogswell 

 (unpublished data collated and provided by Howard 

 Cogswell), and L. O. Williams (University of California 

 Berkeley, Hastings Reservation, Carmel Valley, 

 California). Invaluable assistance with the collation of 

 historical egg records from museums was provided by 

 G. J. McChesney, W. R. Mclver, R. T. Golightly, and T. 

 Danufsky. S. F. Bailey (Pacific Grove Natural History 

 Museum) provided a copy of the common murre section 

 of the notebook files for the "Middle Pacific Coast 

 Region" (Oregon border to Point Conception) 

 maintained for American Birds and its predecessor 

 Audubon Field Notes. This notebook file contains the 

 unpublished observations of many individuals noted 

 in the text and was checked against observations 

 published in American Birds. The libraries of the 

 University of Manitoba (Winnipeg. Manitoba), 

 University of California (Davis and Berkeley, California), 

 and Point Reyes Bird Observatory (Stinson Beach, 

 California) provided much historical literature and 

 assistance through interlibrary loans. Other unpublished 

 historical observations were provided by S. Allen, R. A. 

 Erickson, R. Jurek, and T. Schulenberg. Previous 

 summaries of historical literature on murres in California 

 were extremely helpful, especially the works of D. G. 

 Ainley, R. W. Doughty, J. Grinnell, G. L. Hunt, L. F. Kiff, 

 T. J. Lewis, A. H. Miller, and T. O. Osbome. 



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