cormorants. There seem to be a few on all the out- lying rocks that project enough above the water. Phalacrocorax pelagicus. Ten or a dozen were resting on little shelves on the face of the cliff on the south- east side of the Point Sur. Sesters. One or two flocks. Shy, flying on approach. Also saw a flock of about a dozen other ducks. Looked like Dafila acuta. September 8, 1911. Pt. Sur to 1 mi. N. Little Sur River, up Little Sur to Idlewild, from there by road to Point Sur Light Station, California. Point Sur. 8 A.M. Overcast; NW wind. I'm going down the steps from the house to the road I noted lots of small sparrows, chiefly Zonotrichia leucophrys. From the road I noted a large northward movement of shearwaters between 1/4 and 1/2 miles off the point; there were also raft flocks on the water. There were the usual cor- morants on the rocks on the west side of the point. As I came down from the rock I saw one Larus occidentalis flying about the beach south of the point. From the beach on the north side of the point at 8:30 A.M. I noted some shearwaters passing quite close to the point. There were a few cormorants flying. A gull which came quite close looked hardly large enough for Larus occidentalis and may have been a Larus californicus; it had a mottled head. About a mile north of Point Sur I saw a number of cormorants and Larus occidentalis on off- shore rocks. In order to avoid an impassable rock I went up a little arrow up a short distance and then along some very steep sand hills