. . uring a recent trip to California. He says: The Brandts cormorant is the common species vdn-tering in southern California. Like the California brownpelican and the surf ducks, only the juvenile birds arefound in the bay close to the city of San Diego. Thebirds are perfect gluttons, and as I lifted it into the boatthere dropped from the gular sack of one specimen thatI shot over twenty small fish. The beautiful iridescenceof the dark copper-green plumage of the adult cormorantcan only be appreciated when the freshly killed bird is
. . uring a recent trip to California. He says: The Brandts cormorant is the common species vdn-tering in southern California. Like the California brownpelican and the surf ducks, only the juvenile birds arefound in the bay close to the city of San Diego. Thebirds are perfect gluttons, and as I lifted it into the boatthere dropped from the gular sack of one specimen thatI shot over twenty small fish. The beautiful iridescenceof the dark copper-green plumage of the adult cormorantcan only be appreciated when the freshly killed bird isseen. Seth Mindwell. WHITE PELICAN This bird is common to entire temperate North Amer-ica. It is one of the largest of our waterfowl, inhabitingboth fresh and salt water. Like the brown pelican, thisspecies is decidedly gregarious. Professor Jones says:The birds travel sixty miles to catch fish for themselvesand young. They often vomit up the contents of theirstomachs on the ground, where it quickly decays. Thestench of the rookeries is ahnost intolerable. J ^. h***.^- fi<^ 395 AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN. (Pelecanus erythrorhvnchos).About 1 Li(e-si7e. LONG-WINGED SWIMMERS 65 These birds summer at Great Salt Lake, Utah, andon several of the large inland lakes of Oregon. I noteda colony of approximately seventy-five birds at Sweet-water Lake, North Dakota. These are probably the onlycolonies which remain in the United States proper. ShoalLake, INIanitoba, is one of their favorite nesting and breed-ing grounds. The flight of the pelican is picturesque. Being hea\ybirds, they rise from the water with difficulty, using theirfeet in ascending. A flock of perhaps twenty-five birdswill mount into the air during the heat of the day andcircle about until they appear like mere specks againstthe sky. The plumage of the adult birds is pure white with theexception of a portion of the wing which is black, whichcolor shows in marked contrast when the birds are soaring. Two or three eggs are dep
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