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trips upon the ocean from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory 

 at Pacific Grove, the directors of the Laboratory again 

 kindly allowing me the use of a building. 



After the equinoctial, low fogs prevailed during several 

 weeks. The last month the weather was stormy much of 

 the time, the wind generally freshening sufficiently by noon 

 to enforce return to the shelter of the land, for only an open 

 sailboat, sixteen feet in length, was employed in the daily 

 voyages. Nevertheless, there were but three days when 

 the surf was too heavy for a surfman to launch a boat with 

 safety, and on these occasions it moderated by afternoon, 

 or at latest by the following morning. 



With the exception of the omission of the vernacular and 

 technical names of subspecies, the nomenclature in the fol- 

 lowing pages conforms to the second edition and eighth and 

 ninth supplements of the A. O. U. 'Check-List.' 



IL Migration. 



I. Calendar. 



September 18. An afternoon upon the bay and ocean 

 revealed that a lull existed in the migrations. Many small 

 flocks of Northern Phalaropes occupied the kelp, appar- 

 ently feeding and resting. Upon no occasion during the 

 great August flights of 1892 and 1894 were so many found 

 halting by the way. No Red Phalaropes were seen, save a 

 single company tarrying upon the kelp. A stream of Dark- 

 bodied and Black-vented Shearwaters, moving in the direc- 

 tion of Point Santa Cruz, passed near the buoy during the 

 middle of the afternoon. Of three specimens taken of the 

 former species, two had the organs of reproduction enlarged 

 as in birds in the height of the breeding season — a circum- 

 stance not observed in May, June, July, and August. 

 Accompanying the Shearwaters was a solitary Fulmar of 

 the dark phase. Heermann's Gulls were not very numer- 

 ous and Western Gulls, although abundant, were repre- 

 sented almost entirely by individuals having the mantle 



