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L. ^I. Iluey saw several tlie last of ]\Iareh, 1915. I think it doubtful if the spe- 

 cies breeds at Catalina, at least on the east side. J. Grinnell (5) found small 

 numl)ers nesting on Santa Barbara Island in the spring of 1897, with but two or 

 three nests in any one group. H. Wright (1:2) noted several small colonies above 

 the entrance to the caves on Anacapa, July 6, 1912, and says that the birds were 

 very shy indeed. R. IT. Beck (16) recorded the species as breeding on the rock 

 at Scorpion Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, in 1895, and C. B. Linton (9) saw both 

 adiTlts and birds of the year in the same locality during November and December, 

 1907. G. Willett (19) found them breeding commonly on the cliffs of San Mig- 

 uel, elune 19, 1910, some of the nests held young, but in most of them were eggs, 

 a few of which proved to be fresh. 



Nests of this cormorant are a good deal like those of the last as to construc- 

 tion, but are notable for the fact that they are just about inaccessible, being built 

 in the niches of cliffs above the sea. The birds seem to stay in the open sea more 

 than either of the two foregoing, and I have been informed that they bring up 

 sea weed where there is none to be had within a hundred and sixty feet of the 

 surface, so they are unusually expert divers. 



41. Pelecanus calif ornicus Ridgway 



California Brown Pelican 



Pelecanus fuscus (/) Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., iv, 1870, p. 79. (?) Henshaw, Rep. 

 Wheeler Surv., 1876, p. 275. 



Pelecanus [fuscusf] californicus (S) Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Am., 

 II, 1884, pp. 143 (140-2). 



Pelecanus californicus ('/) Blake, Auk, iv, 1887, p. 329. (■'>) Streator, Orn. & Ool., xiii, 

 1888, p. 54. (6) Anthony, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d series, ii, 1889, p. 85. (7) Grinnell, 

 Pasadena Acad. Sci., i, 1897, p. 26. (.s') Grinnell, Pasadena Acad. Sci., ii, 1898, p. 9. 

 (.9) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 3, 1902, p. 16. (10) Brewster, Birds Cape Region 

 Lower Calif., 1902, p. 38. (//) Grinnell and Daggett, Auk, xx, 1903, pp. 32, 37. (12) 

 Breninger, Auk, xxi, 1904, p. 219. (13) Reed, N. Am. Birds' Eggs, 1904, p. 67. (///) 

 Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 83. (15) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 126. (16) Wright, 

 Condor, xi, 1909, p. 99. (/7) Osburn, Condor, xi, 1909, p. 136. (18) Willett, Condor, 

 XII, 1910, pp. 171, 173. (W) Burt, Condor, xiii, 1911, p. 166. (.2^) Willett, Pac. Coast 

 Avif., 7, 1912, p. 21. (21) Wright and Snyder, Condor, xv, 1913, pp. 86, 90. (22) 

 Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 31. 



Brown Pelican (.?;?) Holder, Museum, v, 1899, p. 71. 



Pelican (2.',) Peyton, Oologist, xxx, 1913, p. 78. 



Abundant resident throughout the region, but breeding on only a few isl- 

 ands. A large colony nests on the south end of the south island of the Coro- 

 nados group, and another on north island. June 14, 1911, G. Willett (20) found 

 about twenty-five pairs breeding on Santa Barbara Island, while July 2, 1912, 

 H. Wright (21) reported three or four hundred birds with downy young at the 

 same place. C. F. Holder (23) first recorded nests of this bird from Anacapa. 

 The rookery seemed to him to be inaccessible, but there M^ere four or five acres 

 packed with the birds, and the amount of guano indicated that the colony was an 

 old one. This was in August, 1898. Since that time the island has been occupied 

 by the bii'ds in some years, and vacant in others. H. Wright (20) found several 



