THE AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN. 859 
is a big white bird with a funny bill. Get your gun, Jake, and kill it. Brave 
boy! Why, not even a barn door could have 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 you and your 
ilk have quenched the last ray of beauty and abolished the last touch of 
splendor from the landscape. 
Photo by the Author. 
THE SHIFTING SANDS 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, Tulé 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, on Moses and 
Colville Lakes. In May, 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 roth. Detached pairs from this colony 
are occasionally seen at Brook Lake and upon the chain of lakes in the 
Grand Coulee. 
