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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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San Felipe, S.L. Lower Calif. Mexico.
April 17, 1926.
Going to the shore in the evening after
the sun had set I observed and took a
pair of Brymophilus fulicarum—that
were feeding in the surf. They bobbed
on the surface of the water and rode the
breaks like corks. They seemed to
like best the place where the breakers
broke. Here they would go up and down
with the waves every once in a
while dipping their 2 bills in the
water in a horizontal way like a
duck scooping grain off the surface
of the water, and every now and then
when a comb broke directly above
they saved themselves a drenching by
rising quickly a few feet in the
air and immediately landing on the
seaward side of the breaker. They
were quite tame and allowed close
approach.