Abstract

WHILE the number of sea-birds which formerly made their summer home on the rocky island which forms the extremity of Pedro Point in San Mateo County, can not be compared to the great Farallone Island rookeries, yet until recently various sea-birds nested here in quite large numbers, and many of the eggs of the California Murre displayed for sale in San Francisco markets were obtained from this source. It was with a view of learning what birds and what number of birds were nesting on Pedro that we started to journey down the coast on the morning of July 12, 1908, in an open flat-car termed a passenger coach by the Ocean Shore man-

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