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CALIFORNIA BIRD STUDIES 



Although the fauna was quite new to us, Louis Puertes 

 and I saw some forty species of land birds in and about 

 these woods on May 27 and 28, 1903. All were apparently 

 summer resident birds except a flock of ten Cedar Wax- 

 wings, seen on the 28th, and a single Clarke's Ch-ow, satis- 

 factorily identified at short range on the 27th. 



Among the water birds, Heermann's, Bonaparte's, and 

 Western Gulls, and Brandt's Cormorants were the most 



' All the quiet bodies of water contained Phalaropes " 



abundant about the rocky shores of Monterey Bay. On the 

 coast, we found a few Snowy Plovers and Wandering Tatt- 

 lers, and on May 29, a pair of Harlequin Ducks was seen by 

 Fuertes at Point Lobos. 



We were especially interested in the Northern, and Red 

 Phalaropes which chanced to be abnormally abundant at 

 this time. When we reached Pacific drove, on May 20, a 

 record-breaking northwest wind had been blowing for more 

 than two weeks. It evidently had rendered navigation 

 impossible for the Phalaropes, and these seafarers among 



