Proceedings. 3D Ser; Zoology Volume 2, No. 3 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... trips upon the ocean from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory at Pacific Grove, the directors of the Laboratory again kindly allowing me the use of a building. After the equinoctial, low fogs prevailed during several weeks. The last month the weather was stormy much of the time, the wind generally freshening sufficiently by noon to enforce return to the shelter of the land, for only an open sailboat, sixteen feet in length, was employed in the daily voyages. Nevertheless, there were but three days when the surf was too heavy for a surfman to launch a boat with safety, and on these occasions it moderated by afternoon, or at latest by the following morning. With the exception of the omission of the vernacular and technical names of subspecies, the nomenclature in the following pages conforms to the second edition and eighth and ninth supplements of the A. O. U. 'Check-List.' II. Migration. 1. Calendar. September 18. An afternoon upon the bay and ocean revealed that a lull existed in the migrations. Many small flocks of Northern Phalaropes occupied the kelp, apparently feeding and resting. Upon no occasion during the great Augustflights of 1892 and 1894 were so many found halting by the way. No Red Phalaropes were seen, save a single company tarrying upon the kelp. A stream of Darkbodied and Black-vented Shearwaters, moving in the direction of Point Santa Cruz, passed near the buoy during the middle of the afternoon. Of three specimens taken of the former species, two had the organs of reproduction enlarged as in birds in the height of the breeding season--a circumstance not observed in May, June, July, and August. Accompanying the Shearwaters was a solitary Fulmar of the dark phase. Heermann's Gulls were not very numerous and Western Gulls, although...