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9. Sterna antillarum. Least Tern. — '^ Three or four very 



small terns were probably this species" (Rhoads). 

 10. Phalacrocorax auritus albociliatus. Farallon Cor- 

 morant. 

 Phalacrocorax mexicanus Stone and Rhoads, 687. 



Abundant throughout the delta,, flocks being ob- 

 served daily along the Hardy and at Volcano Lake. 

 The specific and subspecific status of the inland cor- 

 morant of this region has been settled by the collections 

 of numerous ornithologists. 

 IL Pelecanus erythrorhynchos. White Pelican. — Com- 

 mon in the delta. We frequently observed large 

 flocks, and Rhoads records groups of ^'half ath6usand" 

 feeding with the cormorants. 



12. Mergus americanus. Merganser. — A few seen by 



Rhoads. 



13. Mergus serrator. Red-breasted Merganser. — 



^^Many" (Rhoads). 



14. Anas platyrhynchos. Mallard. — ''Abundant" 



(Rhoads). 



15. Mareca americana. Baldpate. — On March 29, a large 



flock of Baldpates was seen feeding on a pond in an 

 alfalfa field, six miles south of Mexicali. 



16. Nettion carolinense. Green-winged Teal. — Several 



flocks observed by Rhoads. The Green-winged Teal 

 is said to be one of the most abundant wintering 

 species in the Imperial Valley, and large numbers of 

 them, with other ducks, are shot on the Mexican side 

 of the line to supply the market. There are no game- 

 protective laws in Baja California, and pot-hunting is 

 further encouraged by planters whose fields lie in 

 Mexican territory. The result is that an extensive 

 slaughter of ducks occurs all winter, the birds being 

 admitted through the United States customs. Captain 

 Funcke informed me that he had himself shot ducks 

 and geese in Mexicali for the Los Angeles wholesalers, 

 and that he had sometimes killed as many as sixty 

 birds from the massed flocks with the five shells in 

 his automatic gun. 



