The White Pelican 



abandoned outright. The appearance, then, of scattered companies in 

 spring or summer is no sign that the birds are nesting in the immediate 

 neighborhood, or indeed anywhere. 



Pelicans have bred at many scattered stations in California, and 

 they still nest at a few of them. The history of these nestings, within 



Taken on Lower Klamath Lake 



PARENTAL PRIDE 



Photo by Finley and Bohlman 



recent decades even, would make a pretty volume. Not having had the 

 privilege of making a close personal study of a breeding colony of White 

 Pelicans, the author must content himself with a brief citation of recent 

 nesting records, and a paragraph or so descriptive of conditions found 

 by others. 



In 1906 and 1907, with the outbreak of "New" River and the re- 

 formation of Salton Sea, the White Pelicans took up residence on Echo 

 Island and Pelican Island. Here they were visited by Joseph Grinnell 1 

 in 1908, April 19th and 20th, and he found 980 occupied nests on Echo 

 Island, besides many others in process of construction. This colony, 

 long since scattered by reason of the restoration of Echo "Island" to the 

 mainland, was especially interesting as having been at the southernmost 



'Condor, Vol. X., Sept., 1908, pp. 187-189. 



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