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added to their numbers. When pressed they took flight, a 

 few starting at a time. All headed southward, some con- 

 tinuing this course until out of sight, but most reforming 

 on the water after flying a short distance. As I returned to 

 the Laboratory at midday individuals were found resting 

 along the way near the shore. One of these loiterers joined 

 some 'albacores' — in his eagerness accompanying the fish 

 beneath the surface. The only water fowl observed were 

 two Surf Scoters on the water. No distinctively northward 

 movement occurred in any species. It was slightly foggy 

 on the bay offshore in the morning. 



November 2. Early in the day there was a slight move- 

 ment southward in Black-vented Shearwaters, which gained 

 impetus by noon, when small flocks appeared at brief inter- 

 vals, rounding Point Pinos near the land. At the same 

 time, a mile or two offshore, a few outlying stragglers were 

 wandering about. At twenty minutes to four a continuous 

 stream was moving down the coast a sixteenth of a mile off 

 the Laboratory, breasting a strong southwest wind — the out- 

 growth of a sea breeze that began at ten o'clock. At five 

 the flight had nearly subsided. Contemporaneous with the 

 movement of Shearwaters was one of Western and Heer- 

 mann's Gulls. Its height likewise occurred during the 

 latter part of the afternoon, when numerous small bands 

 wended their way along the shore out to the ocean — the 

 Western Gulls crossing the Laboratory point and the Heer- 

 mann's Gulls keeping just beyond the reach of the surf. 

 So far as observed the Red Phalaropes were reduced to 

 two — these on the water near the kelp. 



November j. The wind of the 2d bore fruit in a tremen- 

 dous surf — the heaviest between the 17th of September and 

 the 17th of November. A steamer that had gone on the 

 rocks in a fog during the summer and had withstood previ- 

 ous storms was overwhelmed and went to pieces. The 

 movement in Gulls of the day before seemed to be con- 

 tinued on a larger scale. At sunrise loose companies were 

 passing outward by the Laboratory. At the wreck many 



