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an adult male and a young female taken Oct. 5, 1899, by 

 Mr. Alvin Seale. Much of the nuptial hood and collar is 

 still retained in the male. 



Sterna maxima. Royal Tern. 



Sterna elegans. Elegant Tern. — Six Terns of the 

 larger kind were observed May 8 as they passed northward 

 near the buoy. They probably belonged to one or the 

 other of these species. 



Sterna forsteri. Forster's Tern. — They were plentiful 

 during the four days following May 10. None were noted 

 before or after this interval. 



An April male from the vicinity of San Francisco has the 

 jugulum, breast, and sides of abdomen very pale gray, in 

 this respect resembling lighter examples of Sterna para- 

 discea. Several other April specimens are tinged with gray 

 on these parts. 



Diomedea nigripes. Black-footed Albatross. — Be- 

 tween May 3 and June 9 seventeen were met with. Four 

 of these occurred May 11 and three May 28. On both 

 occasions, mistaking us for fishermen, they came to the 

 boat, expecting to share in the catch. One of them fear- 

 lessly alighted on the water within twenty-five feet of us. 

 Although I shouted and threw an empty cartridge and a 

 Murre at him, he did not take wing. In one instance, when 

 there was a heavy sea, an individual came to the inner part 

 of the bay near the harbor. Usually, however, they kept 

 to the ocean, those of the nth and 28th being fully five 

 miles to the westward of Point Pinos. My trips did not 

 extend sufficiently offshore to develop ' Gonies' in abundance. 



Puffinus creatopus. Pink-footed Shearwater. — Pre- 

 vious to May 27 comparatively few Pink-footed Shearwaters 

 were observed. In June they became quite abundant. 

 Males greatly outnumbered the females, which was also the 

 case in the autumn of 1896. Individuals frequently came 

 close to the boat, seemingly prompted by curiosity. 



Several specimens (apparently adult) have the white of 

 the under parts immaculate anterior to the lower abdomen. 



