While examining specimens at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), University of California, Berkeley, I came across a specimen of the Wedge-tailed Shearwater (Puffinus pacificus) that lay misidentified as a Short-tailed Shearwater (P. tenuirostris). The bird was collected in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, California, on 1 April 1915 by A. G. Vroom, in “Read’s Yard” (apparently somewhere in the town). It was originally kept in the collection of O. P. Silliman (when the identification as the Short-tailed was made), which was later donated to the MVZ.