Notes on Some California Birds
Notes on Some California Birds
I secured an adult male and a young of the short-eared owl (Asio accipitrinus) at Los Banos, Merced County, on June 20, 1903. The young was still partly in the downy, juvenile dress, and is now in the collection of Dr. Dwight.
The northern phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus) was abundant on our arrival at Monterey, June 3, 1903. We saw a few swimming on a pond near there when we left, June 15.
Dr. Dwight and I found a flock of about a dozen red phalaropes (Crymophilus fulicarius) on a small pond at Point Pinos, near Monterey, June 3, 1903. Those secured before a maternal government interfered were assuming nuptial dress, but would not have bred for several weeks.
Eleven sooty shearwaters (Puffinus fuliginosus) which I collected off Chatham, Mass., on August 19, 1904, are absolutely inseparable from eight dark-bodied shearwaters (Puffinus griseus) which I collected with Dr. Dwight off Monterey, California, on June 6, 1903. Both series are in the same stage of moult, which agrees with Dr. Dwight's discovery that birds of the Pacific moult two months earlier than those of the Atlantic.
LOUIS B. BISHOP
New Haven, Conn.
