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19. PELECANUS CALIFORNICUS Ridgway. 



Pelecaniis fusctts SvKXi^\'AV.\., Proc. Zool. Soc, p. 125, 1871 (Galapagos). 

 Pelecanus fuscits (?) californiciis Ridgway, Water Birds N. A., 11, p. 143, 



1884 ; Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xix, p. 593, 1896 (Galapagos). 

 Pelecanus fuscus calif ornictts Rothschild and Haktert, Novit. Zool., vi, 



p. 176, 1899 (Galapagos). 



Range. — Pacific Coast of America from Washington to Peru. 

 Galapagos Archipelago : Charles, Hood, Chatham, Barrington, Sey- 

 mour, Indefatigable, James, Albemarle, Narboro, Abingdon, Bindloe 

 and Tower. 



Generally most abundant on the leeward side of islands, specially 

 numerous about Tagus Cove, Albemarle, and on the east shore of Nar- 

 boro, seeming to prefer places affording a considerable expanse of 

 smooth water. Old rookeries were found on Narboro, the nests being 

 situated in small bushes near the coast. Rothschild reports a nest of 

 three eggs taken among the mangroves of Indefatigable in September 

 by the Harris expedition. 



MEASUREMETS OF ADULT SPECIMENS OF PchcanUS 



californicus. 



We have four adult females, all in the postnuptial plumage, and they 

 are indistinguishable from the California specimens. The gular pouch 

 of a female taken at Elizabeth Bay, Albemarle, in February, was col- 

 ored in life as follows: Ground color very pale brown; numerous 

 much darker lines of purplish-brown arising at the sides of the base of 

 the pouch and running forward parallel with the ramus of the mandible 

 on each side, meeting in the median line in pairs forming acute angles; 

 posteriorly along the edges of the pouch the lines indistinct and the 

 purplish color rather diffuse; veins with a greenish-blue color ; bill, 

 upper mandible horn-greenish, basally with indistinct yellowish streaks, 

 toward the tip this color median only, sides of mandible becoming 

 scarlet, claw lemon-yellow, with dusky shade at base; lower man- 

 dible greenish and yellowish at base, in front of this mottled with yel- 



