THE a:\IERICAN WHITE PELICAN. 



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is a big white bird with a funii}- bill. Get )-our gun, Jake, and kill it. Bra\-e 

 boy! W'liv. not even a barn door could ha\-e withstood such a murderous 

 assault. You will be the talk of the store next Saturday." Yes: and coming 

 generations will curse you for an undiscriminating ass. when \'ou and your 

 ilk have quenched the last ray of beautv and abolished the last touch of 

 splendor from the landscape. 



Plwto by the Author. 



THE SHIFTING S.WDS OF MOSES. 



Pelicans still breed in great companies upon the islands and alluvial 

 bars of the larger and less frequented lakes of the West. The lakes of 

 southern Oregon. Klamath, Tule and the rest, boast several colonies. Con- 

 cerning their nesting in Washington, nothing has been preserved; but it is 

 fair to suppose that they have bred, at least until recently, nn Alos.-s and 

 Colville Lakes. In I\Iay, 1906, Mr. Bowles and I saw thirty birds on Moses 

 Lake and they appeared to be quite attached to the locality, altho we saw no 

 sign of their nesting, up to May 19th. Detached pairs from this colony 

 are occasionally seen at Brook Lake and upon the chain of lakes in the 

 Grand Coulee. 



