CALIFORNIA WATER BIRDS. I9I 



Very little migration was observed on the 28th. It was 

 confined to the California Murre and Northern Phalarope. 



On the 30th conspicuous movements took place, par- 

 ticularly in the Marbled Murrelet and California Murre. 

 Adults of the former species passed down the coast, singly 

 and in couples, all the forenoon. The height of their 

 movement was during the morning. They flew swiftly, 

 and rounded Pt. Pinos chiefly between the buoy and the 

 shore. No young birds were seen. The movement of 

 California Murres was greater than at any time before 

 during the season. Single birds and little strings were 

 continually passing south, near the Point and far out, the 

 whole time I was on the water. There appeared also to 

 be a steady migration southward of California Brow^n 

 Pelicans, though not on so large a scale by far as in the 

 Murres and Murrelets. Northern Phalaropes showed a 

 slight increase over former numbers. One large com- 

 pany and several small ones were observed, en route to 

 the south. 



July 31st there was a dense fog that lasted until noon. 

 It had the effect to deflect the path of migration so that 

 the birds came near to the shore. During half an hour, 

 at eight o'clock, when the fog was densest, a large num- 

 ber of Dark-bodied Shearwaters on their way down the 

 coast passed within a few hundred yards of the surf in 

 front of the Seaside Laboratory. Among them was a 

 Pink-footed Shearwater. It appeared to be bewildered 

 by the fog. It was the first one of the season met with. 

 No Dark-bodied Shearwaters were seen on the 26th and 

 only one on each of the following days up to the 31st. 

 These stragglers were all going south. 



Quite a number of Northern Phalaropes were flying 

 about at random during the forenoon of the 31st, ap- 

 parently lost in the fog. Marbled Murrelets were moving 



