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70.
Carpodacus mexicanus; also a Sayornis nigricans on top of one of
the houses. Three or four hawks seen.
This afternoon I went up the beach to the northward.
No rock birds seen.
Limnornis minutilla. One.
Aegialitis nivea. One.
Oxyechus vociferus. Half a dozen.
Lophotyphus californicus. Heard some calling in lupine
on hillside.
Zonotrichia leucophrys. Quite a few in brush.
There were hundreds of shearwaters flying about
in the big light formed by Point Sur at the south
and a high promontory above the Little Sur River
at the north. Evidently they were fishing; some
were quite close to the lines of breakers.
September 18, 1911.
Point Sur to mouth of Sur River, California. P.M. Warm; light
southerly wind.
On the point and in the brush - Zonotrichia leucophrys.
Hawks. Four or five during day. Hung around point
to raid chicken-yard.
Cathartes aura. Several a-wing.
Cormorants. A-susual. Phalacrocorax pelagicus begin-
nng to go to roost when I returned at 5:15.
Scoters. Two small bands on water.
Larus occidentalis. Several adult and young.
Tern. One on beach. Size of Sterna forsteri.
Arenaria melanocephala. Two on beach on south side of False Sur.
Ardea herodias. One or two standing in kelp way offshore.