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 74 THE CONDOR Vol. XVII (Ardea herodias herodias) and Farallon Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus albociliatus); the vast ground colonies of American White Pelicans (Pelecaus crythrorhynchos); its settlements of California Gulls (Larus californicus); and most of all, and long to be remembered, the wild-crying Ospreys in the great forests of virgin timber, and their huge nests in the lofty dead pines. San Fra,ncisco, California, December 15, 1914. NOTES ON MURRELETS AND PETRELS By ADRIAAN VAN ROSSEIvl %VITI-I ONE PHOTO BY L. HUEY AND TWO PHOTOS BY A. HII,LER TitOUt, It the primary object of this paper is the discussion of some fall specimens of Murrelets taken between San Diego, California, and Los Coronados Islands, Lower California, I deem it advisable to incorporate 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Fig. 26. SrEcaE,'s or Brachyramphus hypoleucus (.xo. 1) A:qD B. craveri (rqos. 2-7), $1tOVrI.G COLOR OF also some notes on the Black and Socorro Petrels which breed on the Coronados in company with the Xantus Murrelet and have also been more or less closely associated vith it in much of the recent literature on the Islands. When on August 13 of the present year iYIr. Laurence Huey and th writer made a flying trip to Los Coronados with a view to collecting a series of young petrels, seven murrelets were taken in the channel about midway between San Diego and the Islands. Of these, one is unmistakably Brachy- ramphus hypoleucus, while the others, after careful attention to the distinguish- ing characteristics as given by Mr. William Brewster in his "Birds of the Cape Region of Lower California", I have no alternative but to label Brachyramphus craveri. The accompanying illustration (fig. 26) shows very nicely the distinction