42 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



This species is the most widely diffused of all our gulls and is 

 as much at home breeding in the far inland lakes as along the 

 coast of the Atlantic, around Hudson bay, along the shores of the 

 Arctic seas or on the upper Yukon. We have records of its breeding 

 in Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Que- 

 bec, Ontario, Manitoba, throughout the whole prairie region and 

 north to Hudson bay and the Arctic sea, and across the Rocky 

 mountains to the upper Yukon, where Dall found it breeding in 

 numbers. Fannin reports it breeding on the coast of British 

 Columbia and also in the interior. 



Breeding Notes. — Breeding in large numbers on an island in 

 Crane lake, Sask., between June gth-iSth, 1894. Nest, a shallow 

 hole in the ground lined with dry grass and weeds. Eggs, three 

 as a rule; never more. A number of the young were hatched by 

 June 9th, but the greater number about the i8th, when many 

 young were running about the island, and some took to the water 

 and swam away. The men on Crane Lake farm said that the old 

 birds killed gophers [Spermophihis Richardsofii) and fed them to 

 their young. {Sprcadborotgh) This species breeds in numbers at 

 Buffalo lake. Alberta. {Dippie.) 



I found this species breeding abundantly at Shoal lake, Mani- 

 toba, on June i8th, 1894. The nests were built on the ground on 

 the islands, were composed of weeds, and contained three eggs 

 each. {Raine.) 



The herring gull is a common species along the St. Lawrence. 

 A few years ago it used to breed on Pigeon island and the Lower 

 Ducks, Lake Ontario, but owing to constant disturbance it no 

 longer breeds in those places, and I doubt if any now nest around 

 Lake Ontario. It is still plentiful in the neighbourhood of Parry 

 Sound, Lake Huron, and on other lakes in northern Ontario. 

 {Rev. C.J. Yo7mg.) 



This gull breeds on the small islands off the coast of Bruce 

 CO., Ont., in the Georgian bay and off Manitoulin island. Nest 

 in a dry situation. The fishermen take the eggs for food in con- 

 siderable quantities. I have one Qgg taken by them which is of 

 a light blue colour, and unspotted. No eggs that I saw were other 

 than this: species, though it seems probable that the ring-billed 

 gull, which is very common in Georgian bay, may also breed in 

 the same localities. {VV. Saunders.) 



