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killed specimens of the former it is subject to much variation, as the following 
notes by Mr. Frazar relating to the seven birds just mentioned will show : — 
Cotor oF Pouca. 
Females in full nuptial plumage with black napes. 
No.1. “Anterior half of pouch very dark olive green; posterior half flesh 
colored.” 
No.2. “Anterior half dark olive green shaded with yellow along fold; posterior 
half light yellowish flesh color tinged with reddish at base.” 
No. 4. “Anterior two thirds very dark olive green; posterior third flesh color 
tinged, especially along borders of feathered tracts, with red.” 
Adult (2) females with white necks. 
No. 8. “ Anterior two thirds dark olive green; posterior one third red.” 
No. 5. “Anterior half olive green; posterior half bright red.” 
Male in full nuptial plumage. 
No. 6. “ Anterior half dark greenish olive; posterior half chou-chou yellow.” 
Young in plain brown plumage. 
No. 7. “Entire pouch flesh colored. Feet dark. Iris white flecked with gray.” 
This Pelican is common about La Paz in winter, and both Mr. Belding and 
Mr. Frazar found it also at San José del Cabo, the former on May 17, 1882, 
the latter in October, 1887. According to Mr. Frazar’s notes it ‘‘ breeds in 
March,”’ just where he does not state, but Mr. Bryant} “was told that they lay 
on the southern end of Santa Margarita Island.” Mr. Anthony found a colony 
of about five hundred breeding on San Martin Island, and “according to Mr. 
A. M. Ingersoll they nest also on Los Coronados Islands” (Bryant). In the 
lagoon at San José del Cabo Mr. Frazar found one of these birds in a singular 
dilemma. ‘The upper mandible had been shut inside the lower, and the 
bones of the latter had closed over the former so firmly that the poor bird 
could not open its bill.” It was so feeble from starvation that Mr. Frazar 
caught it, not without difficulty, and at some risk of breaking the mandibles 
pulled them apart by main force and set the bird free. ‘It was laughable to 
see it snap its bill repeatedly as it flew off, evidently not less surprised than 
relieved to find that it could open and shut it again.” 
The California Brown Pelican occurs more or less commonly along the 
Pacific coast as far northward as Gray’s Harbor, Washington.? It has also 
been taken at Burrard Inlet, which Mr. Fannin thinks may be the extreme 
northern limit of its range.® 
1 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 259. 
2 Hubbard, Zoe, III. 1892, 142. 
3 Check List Birds British Columbia, 1891, 8. 
