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in flocks with the former or sufficiently near them to be 

 within sight. Much migration occurred in Surf Scoters 

 during the morning. Four were noticed on the water. 

 Loons, too, went down the coast in some numbers. Two 

 migrating companies were fully six miles from land. Be- 

 sides Cormorants and Pelicans, the following were noted : 

 A few Rhinoceros and Cassin's Auklets, two adult Murres, 

 a Pomarine Jaeger, several adult Glaucous-winged Gulls 

 and as many Herring or Vega Gulls (all going south), one 

 Royal Tern, a dark Fulmar, two southward-bound Dark- 

 bodied Shearwaters, a Great Blue Heron, a party of Red 

 Phalaropes scattered over the water at the buoy, and groups 

 of three and twelve Red-breasted Mergansers near the 

 Laboratory. Individuals of the last species were seen 

 during the past month whenever I ventured close to the 

 surf along the south shore of the bay. 



November 12. The morning was cold and clear with a 

 fresh breeze from the east. There was scarcely any swell 

 — hardly more than a summer ripple at the Laboratory 

 beach. I did not go outside. Most of the forenoon was 

 passed on the inner portion of the bay. Before half the 

 distance to Monterey had been traversed more than two 

 hundred Loons had gone by — individuals, and bands of 

 eight, seventeen, fifty-two, eighty-six, thirty, and nine, 

 flying high in air along the shore in the direction of the 

 ocean. Surf Scoters were quite numerous. Like other 

 inshore transients they avoided the Monterey harbor, 

 shaping their course from the eastern shore toward a little 

 promontory about half a mile east of the Laboratory, then 

 westward close by the Laboratory point — the line of flight 

 being from headland to headland along the south shore. 

 With the flock of thirty Loons there were three White- 

 winged Scoters. One or two independent companies also 

 appeared. An extensive morning and afternoon flight 

 occurred in Western and Heermann's Gulls — adults and 

 birds-of-the-year. For the first time since my arrival the 

 young of the latter were conspicuous on the rocks. Loiter- 

 ing juvenile Glaucous-winged Gulls were not uncommon 



