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At least three thousand of the Shearwaters were seen 

 during the last two hours I was out on the ocean, and 

 there was apparently no abatement in their movement 

 before I returned to land. The two streams in which 

 they moved were formed of straggling companies, vary- 

 ing from a few individuals to flocks of considerable size. 

 Often there was a complete break, no birds being in sight 

 for several minutes. None were seen on the water. Al- 

 though a portion passed directly through a great gather- 

 ing of Cormorants and Gulls that had been frightened 

 from the water by the boat, they did not deviate from 

 their course, apparently paying no attention to the great 

 mass of birds flying in confusion about them. Neither 

 did they decoy to wounded comrades, though Gulls were 

 attracted to them, several alighting on the water close by 

 the wounded birds. 



With one of the large companies there was a white col- 

 ored Fulmar. It was probably Fiihnarus glacialis 7'od- 

 gersii, as that subspecies was secured a little later in the 

 season. 



Only two California Murres were seen. Both were 

 flying southward, following the coast -line south of Pt. 

 Pinos. 



Two male Black Turnstones, with minute testes, were 

 shot at some rocky islets — known locally as Seal Rocks — 

 about a mile north of Pt. Cypress. There were per- 

 haps a half dozen in all. 



The occurrence of the Black Turnstone on the Cali- 

 fornia coast in each of the summer months (as upon the 

 Farallones, Bryant, _;f<^e Emerson, Proc. Cal. Acad, Sci., 

 2d ser. , vol. i, p. 44) is not an exceptional circumstance, 

 for the same thing happens on the Atlantic seaboard in 

 other boreal Limicolse — for example, on the Gulf Coast 

 of Florida (Scott, "Auk," vol. vi, pp. 156-159). 



