PEYTON, Lawrence Gorham

Left: Sidney Burns Peyton, Right: Lawrence Gorham Peyton

PEYTON, Lawrence Gorham (1890-1985)[SS#553-16-6740] was a Fillmore-born citrus farmer and serious avocational ornithologist who often went birding with his younger brother, Sidney. He was a life member of the Cooper Club.

Lawrence Peyton made trips to four Channel Islands variously with his brother, Sidney, and fellow ornithologists M. C. Badger, Dudley S. DeGroot, J. R. Pemberton, John S. Rowley, Charles Ashworth and Richard E. Thompson.

Directory of Members, Cooper Ornithological Club, May 1914:

• Lawrence Peyton. Sespe, CA 1909.

L. G. Peyton published four articles in Condor between 1909-1918.

Peyton died of a heart attack at age 95 in Santa Barbara, California on August 8, 1985. He is buried in Bardsdale Cemetery. His wife predeceased him, and was survived by his son, Harry, and daughter, Doris Guthrie.

Peyton correspondence (1909-1929) is in the files of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley. Peyton’s egg collection is located at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology.

Peyton collected at least seven Bald Eagle egg sets on Santa Cruz and Anacapa islands:

• March 2, 1917 Anacapa [WFVZ-33980]
• March 3, 1917 Santa Cruz Island [WFVZ-81997]
• March 4, 1918 Anacapa [PSM-13149]
• March 9, 1919 Anacapa [PSM-13148]
• March 7, 1920 Anacapa [PSM-13150]
• March 7, 1920 Santa Cruz Island [WFVZ-17468]
• March 11, 1920 Santa Cruz Island [DMNH-16218]

Peyton collected on:

• ANACAPA ISLAND (1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1927, 1928)
• SAN MIGUELISLAND (1928)
• SANTA CATALINA ISLAND (1929)
• SANTA CRUZ ISLAND (1917, 1920, 1928)

BAJA CALIFORNIA ISLANDS

• ISLA ASENCION (1930)
• ISLA NATIVIDAD (1930)

ANACAPA ISLAND

ISLAND	COLLECTOR	INSTITUTION	DATE	NUMBER	SPECIMEN
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton	WFVZ	March 2, 1917	WFVZ-33980	Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Eggs
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton	PSM	March 4, 1918	PSM-13149	Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Eggs
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton	PSM	March 9, 1919	PSM-13148	Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Eggs
~ trip ~
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton	FMNH	May 19, 1919	FMNH-159084	Brachyramphus hypoleucus	Eggs
~ trip ~
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton	PSM	March 7, 1920	PSM-13150	Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Eggs
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton (?)	PSM	March 7, 1920	PSM-10568	Haliaeetus leucocephalus	(Eggs)?
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton	OMNH	March 7, 1920	OMNH-2595	Pelecanus occidentalis	Eggs
~ trip ~
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton	WFVZ	May 14, 1927	WFVZ-140462	Larus occidentalis	Eggs
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton	WFVZ	May 14, 1927	WFVZ-32118	Larus occidentalis	Eggs
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton	WFVZ	May 14, 1927	WFVZ-81349	Larus occidentalis	Eggs
~ trip ~
Anacapa Island	L. G. Peyton & D. S. DeGroot	WFVZ	June 2, 1928	WFVZ-58941	Haematopus bachmani	Eggs

SAN MIGUEL ISLAND

ISLAND	COLLECTOR	INSTITUTION	DATE	NUMBER	SPECIMEN
San Miguel Island	L. G. Peyton	MVZ	June 2, 1928	MVZ-4569	Phalacrocorax penicillatus	Eggs
San Miguel Island	L. G. Peyton	ROM	June 2, 1928	ROM-500405	Phalacrocorax penicillatus	Eggs

SANTA CATALINA ISLAND

ISLAND	COLLECTOR	INSTITUTION	DATE	NUMBER	SPECIMEN
Santa Catalina Island	L. G. Peyton	ROM	May 19, 1929	ROM-503542	Larus occidentalis occidentalis	Eggs

SANTA CRUZ ISLAND

ISLAND	COLLECTOR	INSTITUTION	DATE	NUMBER	SPECIMEN
Santa Cruz Island	L. G. Peyton	WFVZ	March 3, 1917	WFVZ-81997	Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Eggs
~ trip ~
Santa Cruz Island	L. G. Peyton	WFVZ	March 7, 1920	WFVZ-17468	Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Eggs
Santa Cruz Island	L. G. Peyton	DMNH	March 11, 1920	DMNH-16218	Haliaeetus leucocephalus	Eggs
~ trip ~
Santa Cruz Island	L. G. Peyton	WFVZ	May 20, 1928	WFVZ-81574	Oceanodroma homochroa	Eggs
Santa Cruz Island	L. G. Peyton	WFVZ	June 2, 1928	WFVZ-73963	Oceanodroma homochroa	Eggs
Santa Cruz Island	L. G. Peyton	WFVZ	June 2, 1928	WFVZ-81574	Oceanodroma homochroa	Eggs