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October and November and leaves mostly in May. Recorded by B. W. Evermann 

 as often seen on the lagunas of Ventura County in winter (Auk in, 1886, 89). 

 F. S. Daggett noted a flock of about 125 birds dying over Pasadena, November 

 2?, l'JOO. One of them was secured at long range with a high-power rifle (Condor 

 in, 1001, 15). Howard Robertson saw thirty-five or forty birds flying along 

 the Los Angeles River, near Los Angeles City, April 27, 1900. Alphonse Jay 

 saw about 250 birds flying in a northerly direction over Sierra Madre, Los Ange- 

 les County, May 22, 1910, and I saw a single bird at Nigger Slough, Los Angeles 

 County, May 25, 1907. 



According to J. G. Cooper, few of this species reach San Diego, most of them 

 veering to the eastward toward the Gulf of California ( 1'.., Br. & Ridg., W. B. N. 

 A. ii, 1884, 136). A male was taken at San Diego in the early 50's by A. Cassidy 

 (Lawrence, Pac. R. R. Rep. ix. 1858, 869). 



55. (127) Pelecanus californicus Ridgway. California Brown Peli- 

 can. 



Common resident along the coast. Breeds irregularly on several of the 

 Santa Barbara Islands, the largest nesting colony north of the Mexican line being 

 undoubtedly the one on Anacapa Island. During some seasons, however, the 

 birds apparently do not nest there at all. The Anacapa colony was first described 

 by C. F. Holder, who visited it in August, 1898. At this time the young were 

 nearly full grown ( Museum v, 1899, 71). In June, 1899, LI. Robertson and V. 

 W. Owen went over Anacapa thoroughly, but the Pelicans were apparently not 

 nesting there at that time. On June 5, 1910. I visited this island in company with 

 several other members of the Cooper Ornithological Club. We found about 500 

 nests of the Pelican containing eggs and young. Fresh eggs were taken from 

 some nests, and nearly full-grown young were noted in others (Condor xn, 1910. 

 170). In May. the following year, H. C. Burt visited this locality and reports 

 that, while there were a few birds present, they were not nesting. 



H. Wright found several nests of this species, all of which contained young 

 birds, on Santa Cruz Island, in July, 1909. June 15, 1910, I noted five nests con- 

 taining young on San Miguel Island (Condor xn, 1910, 173), and on June 14, 

 1911, I found a colony of about twenty-five pairs breeding on Santa Barbara 

 Island. All of the nests contained newly hatched young at this date. 



56. (128) Fregata aquila (Linnaeus). Man-o'-war-bird. 



Resident of southern Lower California and Mexico. Occasionally straggles 

 north along the coast of California. J. G. Cooper was told of a single specimen 

 being shot at San Diego. It had entered the bay and alighted on the mast of an 

 old hulk anchored there. He was also told that the species is common at some 

 seasons outside the bay (B., Br. & Ridg.. W. B. N. A. n. 1884, 130). I saw a 

 female that was shot by A. C. Parsons at Alamitos Bay, Los Angeles County, 

 June 17, 1906, and on June 13. 1911. two immature birds were caught with hook 

 and line by a fisherman on the pleasure pier at Long Beach (Linton, Condor xm, 

 1911, 168). An immature specimen was shot by L. Price at North Pasadena in 

 August, 1892 (Lawrence, Auk x, 1893, 362), and H. S. Swarth saw three birds 

 circling overhead near Los Angeles in December, 1897 ( Grinned, Pub. 2, Pasa- 



