BREWSTER: BIRDS OF THE CAPE REGION, LOWER CALIFORNIA. 41 
ence, and did not attempt any resistance. Those which were taken alive were not 
given an opportunity to use their beaks if they had been so disposed. . . . 
“Eggs were collected for food by the Mexicans during the latter part of Decem- 
ber, and owing to repeatedly taking them, some were found February 13, 1888, which 
were in different degrees of incubation, others were quite fresh. The Mexicans 
had fresh eggs April 27 which they had recently taken. 
“The first young were seen in the middle of February ; they had been hatched 
sometime earlier, for although some were nearly naked, others had a full covering 
of snowy down and the dark scapular pin feathers.” 
Mr. Grinnell states! that the Man-o’-War Bird is “of not infrequent occur- 
rence” along the coast of Los Angeles county, California, in winter, and Mr. 
T. S. Palmer has recorded? the capture of a female at Humboldt Bay on 
October 5, 1888, 
Merganser serrator (Linyv.). 
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 
 Mergus serrator Betp1nG, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI. 1888, 352 (La Paz). 
The Red-breasted Merganser is “common at La Paz in winter” according 
to Mr. Belding, who seems to have been the first and, indeed, thus far the 
only observer who has met with it in the Cape Region. Mr. Bryant appar- 
ently overlooked the record just quoted, but says® that he himself found the 
birds “tolerably common during March,” and also saw some in April in the 
long estero north of Magdalena Bay, adding that ‘* Mr. Belding tells me that 
he saw a number in San Quintin Bay in May, 1881, and shot one specimen.” 
Further northward, in California, this Merganser is a regular and very common 
winter bird. There is, I believe, no record of its occurrence south of Lower 
California, 
Lophodytes cucullatus (Liyv.). 
HoopED MERGANSER. 
Lophodytes cucullatus R1peway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., V. 1885, 534, footnote (San 
José del Cabo). Benprne, Jbid., VI. 1885, 352 (s. of lat. 24° 30’). Bryant, 
Proce. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 265 (San José del Cabo; La Paz). 
The Hooded Merganser is said by Mr. Ridgway to have been taken at San 
José del Cabo by Mr. Xantus, in February, and it is given as “rare ” south of 
latitude 24° 30’ by Mr. Belding. Mr. Frazar did not meet with it, and Mr. 
Bryant gives no record for the central or upper portions of the Peninsula, al- 
1 Pub. II. Pasadena Acad. Sci., 1898, 10. 
2 Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., IL. 1889, 88. 
8 Ibid., 265. 
