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2 uninhabited. Reluctantly I gave up the voyage to Guadalupe and went to Cerros Island. Cerros or Cedros was the second objective point of my instructions. I found Cerros quite destitute of birds, and after staying there twelve days we went to Scammon's Lagoon for the purpose of collecting on



the peninsula. The surf was so dangerous we did not attempt to enter the lagoon. It was here that Mr. Anthony's schooner was wrecked in 1898.

From off Scammon's Lagoon we followed the coast northward, went ashore at Santa Rosalie Bay for a few hours, and then continued up the coast to San Quentin Bay where I spent ten days. We were compelled to anchor near the mouth of the bay and a long tramp was necessary to reach any good collecting ground. Consequently, when I returned to San Diego I felt that my voyage had been anything but successful, though I got the types of Phalacrocorax dilophus albociliatus on Cerros, besides a new lizard or two, and at Coronada Islands during the last of the voyage I got Mr. Brewster's type of Hæmatopus frazari. At San Quentin Bay I first got specimens of the bird which Mr. Ridgway later named Ammodramus beldingi. As I had not strictly followed