202 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



southward. The fog also drove them inshore. They 

 seemed to be confused by it. At the Point some hes- 

 itated and alighted on the water. They were apparently 

 not tired, but afraid to venture out on the open ocean, for 

 they took wing as soon as the boat approached them. 

 Upon no previous occasion were so many seen on the 

 water. Some flew back into the bay. 



2ist. No migration was observed in the California 

 Murre. Only a very few were seen anywhere on the 

 water, the great numbers of the day before having disap- 

 peared. Two California Gulls were taken — the second 

 and third examples of the season. They were in the 

 company of Western and Heermann's Gulls. Small par- 

 ties of Dark -bodied Shearwaters, passing south, were 

 found from two to five miles out from land, north of the 

 buoy. There was quite a continuous flight of them. 

 But one Pink-footed Shearwater was noticed. It was 

 flying southward alone. Few Northern Phalaropes were 

 seen. 



22d. It was foggy in the morning and at intervals 

 during the rest of the forenoon. Many Dark -bodied 

 Shearwaters were following the shore-line south close to 

 the land during the morning. When the sun broke 

 through the mist their path of migration receded several 

 miles from the shore. About midday the fog banked in 

 the northern and western parts of the bay, leaving a par- 

 tially clear strip along the south shore from a little north 

 of the Del Monte beach to Pt. Pinos. Great numbers of 

 Dark-bodied Shearwaters passed outward along this open 

 highway, keeping just without the denser mist. There 

 were some large flocks, but small ones greatly predom- 

 inated. At times the flocks appeared so quickly one after 

 the other that they formed an almost unbroken column. 

 Three Pink-footed Shearwaters followed the path of the 



