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Off the coast of southern California Xantus’s Murrelet is now known to 
occur more or less commonly at all seasons from San Diego to the Santa 
Barbara Islands, where it probably breeds. It sometimes ranges still further 
northward, for Mr. Loomis has reported! the capture of a single bird near 
Monterey on July 28, 1894, and I have seven specimens which were taken in 
the same locality by Mr. Alvin Seale in November and December, 1896, and 
January and February, 1897. 
Brachyramphus craveri (Satvap.). 
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CRAVERI’S MURRELET. 
Uria craveri SALVADORI, Atti Soc. Ital. Sci. Nat., VIII. 1865, 387-389 (orig. descr. ; 
type from Gulf of California). 
Brachyrhamphus craveri Cougs, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1868, 66 (quotes orig. 
descr. ; crit.). Cours and Streets, Bull. U. 8. Nat. Mus., no. 7, 1877, 82, 33 
(descr. eggs and habits; crit.; Isla Raza, Gulf of Calif.). Ripgway, Nom. 
N. Amer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 217), 1881, 57, no. 758; Proc.U. S. 
Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 534, footnote (Cape St. Lucas). | 
[Brachyrhamphus] craveri Exv.i07, Ilustr. New and Unfig. N. Amer. Birds, II. 1869, 
introd. (figures head and leg; quotes orig. descr. ; crit.). 
{Brachyramphus] craveri Gray, Hand-list, III. 1871, 100, no. 10,815. 
[Synthliborhamphus] wurmizusume Cougs, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 344, part (Cape 
St. Lucas). 
Synthliborhamphus wurmizusume Cougs, Check List, 1875, 117, no. 628, part. 
Brachyrhamphus craverii Cougs, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 182, no. 869. 
Brachyramphus craverii Barrp, BREWER, and Ripeway, Water Birds N. Amer., IL 
1884, 502, 508 (descr.; crit.; figures head, bill, and leg; coast of Gulf of 
Calif.; Island of Natividad). 
Brachyramphus craveri A. O. U., Check List, 1886, 81, no. 26. Bryant, Proc. Calif. 
Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 251 (Cape St. Lucas; Natividad Island). 
B[rachyrhamphus] craverii? Cours, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 814 (crit. ; 
figures head and leg; Lower Calif.). 
B.[rachyrhamphus] craveri Ringway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 15 (descr. ; 
Cape St. Lucas). 
Micruria craveri OG1LviE-GRaANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XX VI. 1898, 595 (descr. ; 
near Cape St. Lucas). Anruony, Auk, XVII. 1900, 168, 169 (crit.). 
Endomychura craveri OBERHOLSER, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1899, 201 (new 
genus to include B. hypoleucus and B. craveri). 
| Micruria] craveri Suarre, Hand-list, I. 1899, 131. 
Mr. Frazar collected no less than twenty-five specimens of B. cravert, of 
which fourteen were adults in more or less worn breeding plumage, and eleven 
young of various ages and both sexes. Of the adults eight were males, and six 
females. On comparing this fine series with seven specimens of B. hypoleucus 
1 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., V. 1895, 211, 212. 
2 Also printed in Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., III. 1880, 163-246. 
