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I ate many, I believe none were boiled. Some wliicli were 

 broken by my falling amongst the mangroves were cooked 

 upon a piece of iron laid on the fire, and these certainly 

 acquired firmness enough to bite on, something of a 

 gelatinous consistency, if 1 remember rightly, and although 

 unsalted, I recollect that they relished at the time. It 

 makes a wonderful difference in one's opinion of such things 

 whether they have dined well for a day or two preceding 

 the experiment or not. The eggs were usually four in 

 number, sometimes three, and in one nest five were found. 



32. Phalacrocorax penicillatus (Brandt). 



Brandt's Coemorant. — Reported from the Cape region 

 and Los Coronados Island by Mr. Belding; at San Jose del 

 Cabo and Cerros Island, he mentions it as abundant. They 

 were found at Magdalena Bay and for many miles up the 

 ester 0. 



33. Phalacrocorax pelagicus resplendens (Aud.) 



Baird's Cormorant. — Seen near Todos Santos Islands upon 

 one occasion in May by Mr. Anthony. 



34. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos GmeL 



American White Pelican. — A flock of white pelicans was 

 reported to me from a little more than one hundred miles 

 northward from Magdalena, on the Pacific coast. Observed 

 at the Cape region by Mr. Xantus. (' ' San Jose del Cabo, 

 Januar^^ February; Cape St Lucas, no date.") Two were 

 seen at La Paz, February 17, 1883, by Mr. Belding. 



35. Pelecanus californicus Ridgw. 



California Brown Pelican^ — Abundant at Magdalena 

 Bay and for many miles up the estero. They often fished 

 in company, in which case they would be attended by a 

 large number of man-o'-war birds that kept continually 

 swooping down to rob them of the fish caught. I did not 

 see them actually succeed, for the pelicans are very cautious 



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