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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) 
Soory SHEARWATER 
Nectris fuliginosus (1) Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 1v, 1870, p. 79. 
Puffinus griseus (2) Grinnell, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1, 1897, p. 24. (3) Oberholser, Proc. 
U. S. Nat. Mus., xxir, 1900, p. 229. (4) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 126. (5) Linton, 
Condor, x1, 1909, p. 198. (6) Willett, Condor, x11, 1910, pp. 170, 174. (7) Willett, 
Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 18. (8) 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 (1) 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 (7). 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 deseribed this bird from Lower California, and as it 
breeds to the north of us, it undoubtedly migrates past the islands. 
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313) Oceanodroma melania (Bonaparte) 
Buack PETREL 
Oceanodroma townsendi (1) Anthony, Auk, x1, 1894, p. 231. (2) A. O. U. Committee, 
Auk, x11, 1895, p. 168. 
Oceanodroma melania (3) Grinnell, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1, 1897, p. 25. (4) Anthony, 
Auk, xv, 1898, p. 140. (5) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 3, 1902, p. 16. (6) Brewster, 
Birds Cape Region Lower Calif., 1902, p. 32. (7) Grinnell and Daggett, Auk, xx, 1903, 
pp. 30, 37. (8) Godman, Monog. Petrels, 1, 1907, p. 24. (9) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, 
p. 82. (10) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 126. (71) Willett, Condor, xm, 1910, p. 174. 
(12) A. O. U. Check-list, 3d ed., 1910, p. 57. (138) Osburn, Condor, xii, 1911, p, 31. 
(14) Willett, Pac. Coast Avif., 7, 1912, p. 19. (175) van Rossem, Condor, xvi, 1915, 
p. 76. (16) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 29. 
O[ceanodroma]. melania (17) Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 5th ed., 1903, p. 1043. 
Black Petrel (18) Willett, Condor, x1, 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 (3) 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 
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