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dropped for a catch, or rose each with a fish in its 

 beak, or settled to the water to eat. In this multitude 

 the dark-bodied Shearwaters outnumbered both gulls 

 and cormorants, and the combined noise was indescrib- 

 able. Mr. Loomis, in his work on the migration of sea 

 birds, as observed at Monterey, proves inferentially that 

 the dark-bodied Shearwaters breed in the south temper- 

 ate zone during the winter months, coming north as 

 soon as the breeding season is over, and remaining until 

 September. In New Zealand, where this bird breeds 

 abundantly, it excavates a burrow in a bank almost 

 exactly like that made by a kingfisher. At the end of 

 this is placed a lining of small sticks, and occasionally 

 a few leaves, or a little moss, and here the one chalky 

 egg is laid. 



105.2. KAEDING PETREL. — Oceanodroma kaedingi. 



Family : The Fulmars and Shearwaters. 



Length: 7.25-8.50. 



Adults: Sooty gray, lighter on under parts; upper tail-coverts white; 



tail-feathers shading to gray at base ; tail forked ; bill and feet black: 

 Geographical Distribution : North Pacific, south to Southern California. 

 Breeding Range : Islands of the Pacific Coast. 

 Breeding Season : March to September. 

 Nest : In burrow, or more commonly in crevices of loose rock ; rudely 



lined with dried grasses. 

 Eggs : 1 ; cream white, with wreath of fine purple dots about larger 



end. Size, 1.34 X 1.00. 



According to Mrs. Bailey the Leach petrels reported 

 on the coast of California were really the species known 



