Bird Notes: Aviary birds of the San Francisco Bay Region, v4289
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37. I noticed a good many Pseudiria columba on the rocks on the south side of the island; they could be seen wheeling about and alighting high up among the crags. I saw two or three sitting on the roof of an old tumble- down shed on the level ground on the south side. In the evening went up to the light house. Near the summit on the south side came across a small bunch of Litra trile on a rocky ledge. Noticed Pseudiria columba all the way up. From the tower I could look down on the northeast side on to the one of the gull colonies. Most of the birds were on the ground but a few were wheeling about. Saw two go after a black rabbit several times. A few Lunda cirrhata were noted. [illegible] This afternoon Fair shot a Lunda cirrhata which rolled down among the gulls. It seized a gull by the foot. The latter started out to see with the puffin hanging on. It went an eighth of a mile before the wounded puffin let go. The were followed by a swarm of gulls. June 23, (1911). D.S. Fairallow .: Cal. Last night around midnight I heard the chorus from Ptychoramplus aleuticus. There was a great din reminding one of saw filing. Then on the rocks Pseudiria columba sits with tarsi flat on rock or ground.