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could see. Dusky Shearwaters would occasionally fly about 

 a pelican, apparently to pester it, for one day I observed a 

 pelican take refuge on the top of a cliff from a number of 

 them. 



A comparison of the average measurements of a small 

 series of Galapagos and California birds shows the California 

 birds to be slightly the larger. The maximum, minimum, and 

 average measurements in millimeters of the Academy's series 

 of adults from these two localities are given in Table XIII, p. 

 118. 



