148 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Proc. 4TH SER. 
1909. I spent the last four months of 1909 in collecting on 
the bay and ocean adjacent to Point Pinos. On October 9 I 
got out about four miles northeast of Point Pinos, and found 
a few Sooty and Cooper’s Shearwaters in bunches on the water. 
The first flock of these shearwaters I neared rose out of gun- 
shot range, and with them a Buller’s Shearwater. They all 
flew north and appeared to settle in the far distance. I rowed 
in their direction and presently a Cooper’s Shearwater flew past 
me, and shortly after, a Buller’s, which I shot. An hour later 
I approached a flock of shearwaters on the water, but they 
rose when a hundred yards distant, and flew to the northward. 
With them were two Buller’s Shearwaters. As the weather 
was not settled and as I was alone as usual in a rowboat I fol- 
lowed no further. 
On the 13th of October, when I was out about four miles 
north of Point Pinos, a Buller’s Shearwater came along, going 
south. It swung up twenty yards astern of the boat, and I 
shot it. 
October 15 there was a low fog all day, and part of the time 
a drizzle. I went out about five miles northeast of Point Pinos 
and found a few Cooper’s Shearwaters fishing about, and 
working out to sea. One Buller’s Shearwater was seen flying 
with a couple of Cooper’s Shearwaters, a few hundred yards 
outside the boat. Presently another Buller’s came along, and 
I winged it. Another one appeared, and started after the 
wounded bird, which was swimming rapidly away. I tossed up 
a dead Bonaparte’s Gull and then a Western Gull, and the 
flying bird swung back toward me, and I shot it. Later, two 
other Buller’s Shearwaters came my way, and were secured. 
The flight of all these birds, in the light wind, was similar to 
the albatross flight, there being no flapping of wings as in 
Cooper’s Shearwater, except when rising over the crest of a 
wave. Three of the four specimens taken had the generative 
organs slightly enlarged. 
Comparison shows that No. 24302 Carnegie Museum (male, 
Mokokinou Islands, New Zealand, “1889’’) is identical in 
specific characters with the series obtained on the ocean off 
Point Pinos, California. The following is a blanket descrip- 
tion of the fourteen Point Pinos specimens now extant: 
