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killed specimens of tlie former it is subject to much variation, as the following 

 notes by Mr. Frazar relating to the seven birds just mentioned will show : — 



Color of Pouch. 



Females in full nuptial plumage with black napes. 



No. 1. " Anterior lialf of pouch very dark olive green ; posterior half flesli 



colored." 

 No. 2. "Anterior half dark olive green shaded with yellow along fold; posterior 



half light yellowish flesh color tinged with reddisii at base." 

 No. 4. "Anterior two tiiirds very dark olive green; posterior third flesh color 



tinged, especially along borders of feathered tracts, with red." 



Adult (?) females with white necks. 



No. 3. " Anterior two thirds dark olive green ; posterior one third red." 

 No. 5. " Anterior half oUve green ; posterior half briglit red." 



Male in full nuptial plumage. 

 No. 6. " Anterior half dark greenish olive ; posterior half chou-chou yellow." 



Young in plain brown plumage. 

 No. 7. " Entire pouch flesh colored. Feet dark. Iris white flecked with gray." 



This Pelican is common about La Paz in winter, and both Mr. Belding and 

 Mr. Frazar found it also at San Jose del Cabo, the former on May 17, 1882, 

 the latter ia October, 1887. According to Mr. Frazar's notes it " breeds in 

 March," just where he does not state, but Mr. Bryant i " was told that they lay 

 on the southern end of Santa Margarita Island." Mr. Anthony found a colony 

 of about five hundred breeding on San Martin Island, and "according to Mr. 

 A. M. Ingersoll they nest also on Los Coronados Islands " (Bryant). In the 

 lagoon at San Jose del Cabo Mr. Frazar found one of these birds in a singular 

 dilemma. " The upper mandible had been shut inside the lower, and the 

 bones of the latter had closed over the former so firndy that the poor bird 

 could not open its bill." It was so feeble from starvation that Mr. Frazar 

 caught it, not without difficulty, and at some risk of breaking the mandibles 

 pulled them apart by main force and set the bird free. " It was laughable to 

 see it snap its bill repeatedly as it flew off, evidently not less surprised than 

 relieved to find that it could open and shut it again." 



The California Brown Pelican occurs more or less commonly along the 

 Pacific coast as far northward as Gray's Harbor, "Washington.^ It has also 

 been taken at Burrard Inlet, which Mr. Fannin thinks may be the extreme 

 northern limit of its ransre.^ 



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1 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., IL 1889, 259. 



2 Hubbard, Zoe, III. 1892, 142. 



3 Check List Birds British Columbia, 1891, 8. 



