E.C. Aldrich 1937 but none were efficient. Finally, we resorted to carbon monoxide from the car: this killed them within a minute. Some of the birds were seen in lagoons preening busily and ducking themselves in a futile attempt to wash it off. Naturally the birds affected most would be those requiring water in which to swim all the time, such as Scoters, Murres, Murrelets, Grebes and Loons. Those birds that were in the water part of the time or on shore mar the water were affected in various ways and reflected the habits of the birds. Snowy plummers that inhabit the upper shoreline away from the water's edge had very little signs of oil on them except on the feet due to their running across oil blobs at times. Sanders- ling, however, that are constantly at the oscillating water edge, looked strangely like Red- bracketed Sandpipers in breeding