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chiefly or wholly deep plumbeous. The only other birds 

 noted were a Pomarine Jaeger, a few Royal Terns, several 

 Short-tailed Albatrosses in dark plumage, many Brandt's 

 Cormorants, some companies of California Brown Pelicans, 

 and two Great Blue Herons. 



Seftembe7- ig. Only one Shearwater (a Dark-bodied) 

 was seen, although the day's cruise extended two miles 

 below Point Pinos. Several flocks of Ducks and Geese 

 passed south. Otherwise the situation was unchanged from 

 the day before. The equinoctial storm began during the 

 forenoon, a heavy gale springing up from the southwest. 



September 21. But few Northern Phalaropes occurred 

 on the kelp. A small number were migrating in companies. 

 There was an extensive southward flight of Black-vented 

 and Dark-bodied Shearwaters during a couple of hours of 

 the forenoon I spent in the vicinity of the buoy. The two 

 species appeared to be about equally abundant. With the 

 exception of a group of the Black-vented resting upon the 

 water, all flew speedily by, following the trend of the shore- 

 line, the majority passing Point Pinos within half a mile of 

 the land. A great column of Shearwaters, moving down 

 the coast about a mile offshore, was seen from the Labora- 

 tory during the afternoon of the 20th (Sunday). To the 

 transient birds of the 21st should be added a Pink-footed 

 Shearwater, a Loon,^ and several large flocks of Ducks. 



Sefte^nher 22. Northern Phalaropes were not plentiful. 

 An adult was secured as it dropped out of a band of passing 

 migrants. A shot into a like company the previous day gave 

 four young-of-the-year. Shearwaters failed to appear in 

 numbers either on the bay or ocean. My range of observa- 

 tion on the latter extended about four miles west of the 

 buoy. Except one individual, all observed were heading 

 down the coast. The ovary of a Dark-bodied Shearwater 

 was much enlarged. New birds were a pair of Elegant 

 Terns, flying along the bay shore toward Point Pinos, and 

 a solitary Murre,a straggler having marks of recent wounds. 



1 In this section of the paper three species are included under the general name 

 I,oon; viz., Gavia imber, G. pacifica, G. lumme. 



