360 Gilmore 1931 SLENDER BILLED SHEARWATER. (D) Often they fly do not rise above the surface to gain momentum for their glide, but flap fly swiftly along on their original course over the waves. Sometimes certain sections of the flock seem to be moving in the same direction, never are all the birds in moving in unison. The effect of such disconcerted, un- cooperative action among thousands of birds, as a hodgepodge of darting twisting black forms mixing together without rhyme or reason and the whole macabrely famed by any sound. Paul Torgramson of Unalaska, states that on December day several years back at Pavlo Bay on the south side of the Alaska Peninsula, he counted 250 dead "Whale birds" on the beach in a 2 hour walk. A S.W. gale had evidently occurred a few days before and had evidently killed them. Oct. 25 Akutan Bay, Akutan, Is. E. Alutuim Is. Capt. Fred Pederson, Hunt at the Pac.