March 17 on board "Golden Bear", Coco Is. to San Diego, Calif side to the stern of her ship, taking garbage thrown over. Much to my surprise a Black-footed Albatross appeared behind the boat. It was an all dark bird except for the primary shafts & the base of the bird feathering, and appeared to stay within the full day. I saw 3 small alcids flying out from the San Benitos with the Manx Shearwater and later saw 2 Xantus Murrelets sitting on the water out at some distance. We flushed a Northern Phalarope during this time and there were about 10 Brown Pelicans and a (Double-a) Cormorant in this region. After breakfast went about for half an hour but saw little else. We passed a group of about 500 gulls, in a large fath & 2 smaller groups, which were resting & feeding distributed as following 400+ birds 80 birds Gulls in the smaller groups would sit on the water, then rise up 4-6', then forward in down to grab something in the water and sit down again. About 1/3 to 1/2 the flock would go at once. The large group appeared to be circling about continually, with birds on the water below, but may have been doing the same thing. Calif. Herring and West. Gulls were about equally represented in