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a flock of sea-pigeons, while I continued along the rocky back-bone to the extreme 
western point, but without finding any occupied nests and encountering but few 
birds. The day of the Pedro Rookery was past! The birds had dwindled in num- 
bers so they could be actually counted, and what a meager list the colony gave! 
1. Ph a la cro co rax field gicus resplendens (Baird Cormorant) 24 
2. Phalacrocorax penicillatus (Brandt Cormorant) 24 
3. Uria troile calif ornica (California Murre) 20 
4. Pelecanus calif ornicus (California Brown Pelican) 14 
5. Cepphus columba (Pigeon Guillemot) 15 
6. Laras occidentalis (Western Gull) 10 
7. Lauda cirrhata (Tufted Puffin) 6 
8. Laras heermanni (Heermann Gull) 6 
While we were dwelling on this serious decrease in Pedro bird statistics, Snow 
at the foot of the bluff was, from all appearances, making serious inroads on the 
supply of eatables, and from a distance we could hear, between the roar of the bat- 
tering waves, the cry of our angry boatman whose idea of two hours and ours 
materially differed. The reader will acknowledge, with this situation before us, it 
would have been unwise to extend our investigations further. 
After "sliding” down the bluff and taking a hurried lunch, we joined our 
impatient boatman who told direful tales of what might have happened had we 
delayed our coming any longer. With the stiff breeze that had come up, he 
declared, it would have been impossible for him to take us off and we would have 
been left on the isle with our scanty supply of provisions. But even the boatman 
did not know how grave a matter this would have been; for he could scarce dream 
what lusty appetites were possest by our commissariat and official photographer. 
Ornithologically and oologically considered our trip was a failure, and photo- 
graphically partly so. Newcomers to the isle will no doubt find fewer birds than 
were noted by our party, for now, with the coming of the railroad and the attendant 
population along its line, the number of feathered dwellers on these sea-rocks will 
be less than ever. 
San Francisco , California. 
AN ORNITHOLOGICAL TRIP TO LOS CORONADOS ISLANDS, MEXICO 
By HOWARD W. WRIGHT 
WITH THREE PHOTOS BY THE AUTHOR 
O N June 20, 1908, with three friends, Mr. J. R. Maclintock, Mr. Frank H. 
Long and Henry Wetherby, I left San Pedro for Los Coronados Islands, 
Mexico. It was the longest trip I had ever taken in my sail boat, the "Sea 
Bird”, which is about thirty feet over all. 
The trip down was uneventful save for a sixteen-hour calm, during which the 
swells were rolling mountain high, and which caused a falling off of appetite on 
the part of my friends, to say nothing of myself. Finally a brisk, stern wind 
sprang up, and we started at a rapid pace for San Diego, making before dark about 
eighty miles. 
All spirits rose with the rising of the wind and on Sunday night, the 21st, we 
