158 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
ern Bluebird (Sialia Mexicana), Barn and Cliff Swallows (Hirundo horreo- 
rum and lunifrons), Bewick’s Wren (Thriothorus Bewickii), Parkmann’s 
Wren (Troglodytes Parkmanni), Oregon Snow-bird (Junco Oregonus), 
Chippy (Spizella socialis), while a longer residence would no doubt 
largely increase all these lists. I must however remark that all these, ex- 
cept the second, fifth, and twenty-first, are also summer residents as far 
south as San Diego, and the three exceptions are probably so in the high 
mountains east of there. This shows the remarkable uniformity of the 
fauna, corresponding to that of climate, in zones running parallel to this 
coast for distances of over five hundred miles. 
Of water-birds I observed a few of interest. The whale fishery 
attracted several species usually seen only far off shore, of which the 
enormous Petrel or **Gong" bres dt i gigantea), could often be seen 
swimming lazily near the try-works to pick up scraps of blubber, some- 
times accompanied by the dusky yo Mn of the Short-tailed Matra 
(Diomedea brachyura) The Pacific Fulmars (F. pacificus), called by the 
Tager 
rocks along shore. On the 12th, saw small Grebes le Praes icus), 
probably lately come from their breeding station; and by t 8th, families 
of about five each, became common. Ont sth, I first iria the large 
Grebe (P. donema but as I left next day i saw no more of the arrival 
of winter visitors. I need not here particularize the common Sandpipers, 
have — to say about them when describing my winter collections made 
at San D 
ats are not common at Monterey, on account of the coolness of 
the summer climate, fogs obscuring the sun for at least half the summer. 
I found but two species, the large Ridge-back Lizard oie multi- 
carinatus), and a Plestiodon, both common in woods from here northward. 
Batrachia however are well suited by the damp climate, as besides Frogs 
(Rana sp. and Hyla regilla), and Toads (Bufo halophila?), I found a Sal- 
amander (Batrachoseps attenuatus) even at this extreme of the dry season, 
not uncommon 
I will not ípébtty the thirty species of fishes obtained, as most of them 
have no peculiar English names and the list would be of little interest to 
general readers. — J. G. COOPER. 
THE Rovan D PELICAN ON Lake Huron. — On the evening of the 
15th of June, ioi a most remarkable specimen of the rough-billed peli- 
ecanus orhynchus Gmelin) was shot by Captain Oliver Mai- 
in the marsh at Sarnia, Lambton County, Ontario (Canada). 
