The White Pelican 



breeding station of record for the 

 species. 



A colony nesting on Buena 

 Vista Lake, in Kern County, 

 was first reported by C. B. 

 Linton, who says: 1 "Two 

 large colonies were vis- 

 ited; one of about 250 

 nests, on a small sandy 

 island in the river mouth ; 

 the other of perhaps 500 

 nests, on the lake shore. 

 The nests of the latter 

 colony were mostly well 

 constructed of tules and 

 marsh grass covering 

 about two acres. The 

 nests on the island were 

 merely holes scooped in 

 the sand." This island 

 colony was visited again 

 on June 8th, 1912, by 

 Messrs. A. Brazier 

 Howell and Chester 

 Lamb, and they re- 

 ported 2 six hundred oc- 

 cupied nests, about equally divided between the Pelicans and Cormorants 

 {P. a. albociliatus) . "As everyone knows who has skinned a pelican, there 



1 Condor, Vol. X., Sept., 1908, p. 196. 

 2 Condor, Vol. XV., May, 1913, pp. 116-117. 



Taken in Oregon 



Photo by 

 Finley and Bohlman) 



WHITE PELICAN, IMMATURE 



Taken in Merced County 



Photo by the Author 



AN ELEPHANTINE FLEET 



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