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lL. M. Huey saw several the last of March, 1915. I think it doubtful if the spe- 
cies breeds at Catalina, at least on the east side. J. Grinnell (5) found small 
numbers nesting on Santa Barbara Island in the spring of 1897, with but two or 
three nests in any one group. H. Wright (72) noted several small colonies above 
the entrance to the eaves on Anacapa, July 6, 1912, and says that the birds were 
very shy indeed. R. H. Beck (76) recorded the species as breeding on the roel 
at Seorpion Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, in 1895, and C. B. Linton (9) saw both 
adults 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. Jyne 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 construe- 
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 californicus Ridgway 
CALIFORNIA BRowN PELICAN 
Pelecanus fuscus (1) Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 1v, 1870, p. 79. (2) Henshaw, Rep. 
Wheeler Surv., 1876, p. 275. 
Pelecanus [fuscus?] californicus (3) Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Water Birds N. Am., 
11, 1884, pp. 143 (140-2). 
Pelecanus californicus (4) Blake, Auk, tv, 1887, p. 329. (5) Streator, Orn. & Ool., xm, 
1888, p. 54. (6) Anthony, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d series, 11, 1889, p. 85. (7) Grinnell, 
Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1, 1897, p. 26. (8) Grinnell, Pasadena Acad. Sci., 11, 1898, p. 9. 
(9) Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 3, 1902, p. 16. (10) Brewster, Birds Cape Region 
Lower Calif., 1902, p. 38. (11) 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. (14) 
Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 88. (15) Linton, Condor, x, 1908, p. 126. (16) Wright, 
Condor, x1, 1909, p. 99. (17) Osburn, Condor, x1, 1909, p. 136. (78) Willett, Condor, 
x11, 1910, pp. 171, 173. (19) Burt, Condor, x1, 1911, p. 166. (20) Willett, Pac. Coast 
Avif., 7, 1912, p. 21. (27) Wright and Snyder, Condor, xv, 1913, pp. 86, 90. (22) 
Grinnell, Pac. Coast Avif., 11, 1915, p. 31. 
Brown Pelican (23) Holder, Museum, v, 1899, p. 71. 
Pelican (24) 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 (27) 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 were 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 oceupied 
by the birds in some years, and vacant in others. H. Wright (20) found several 
