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said to remain longer than any other bird. Plentiful on Melville 

 peninsula, but not so common in the Polar sea, (ArcL Man.) 

 Everywhere common on Ellsemere island. It was found nesting 

 in many places among old heaps of stones. {£. Bay.) Generally 

 distributed, but nowhere breeding in numbers in the Gulf of St. 

 Lawrence (Brezvster.) Breeding in abundance on all suitable 

 islands in northeastern Labrador. I was unable to discover any 

 trace whatever of the Mandt guillemot, although Turner reports it 

 abundant on the east coast. {Bigelow.) Common in Hudson 

 strait ; also east and south shores of Labrador. {Packard.) A 

 few seen on the west coast of James bay in 1903. {Spreadborotigh.) 

 Breeds abundantly in scattered colonies on most of the Magdalen 

 islands. {Bishop.) Breeds at Seal island, Yarmouth co., N.S. 

 {H. F. Tu;ts.) Seen throughout the year on Prince of Wales 

 sound, Hudson strait. {Paytie.) Common at Quebec. {Dioti/ie.) 

 One shot in Burlington bay, Hamilton, Ontario, many years ago. 

 {Mcllwraith.) One record at Toronto, Ont,, a female taken 

 Dec. 19th, 1895. It 's possible that this bird is C. ma?idii, as its 

 beak is small and its plumage very white. (/. H. Fleming?) 



Breeding Notes. — A large series of eggs of this bird was 

 collected for me by Mr. Dicks on Pig island, coast of Labrador, 

 June 20th, 1895. Another large series was collected for me in 

 Ungava bay, Labrador, on July 9th, 1896. This bird lays two 

 eggs in crevices of sea cliffs. I have also eggs in my collection 

 collected on Grand Manan, New Brunswick. {Raine.) This is a 

 common species in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, breeding in suitable 

 localities as far west as the mouth of the Saguenay. Numbers of 

 them breed on the Magdalen islands as well as near Tignish, at 

 the west point of Prince Edward island. On the 23rd and 24th 

 June, 1897, we found a number of their eggs in the cliffs of Bryon 

 island. The eggs were mostly ffesh, or only incubated a few 

 days at that date. Each bird lays two eggs in a crevice of the 

 rock, sometimes as much as two or three feet in. No nest is 

 formed, the eggs being laid on the bare earth. They do not vary 

 much, but where the soil is damp and its colour red they soon 

 become stained and discoloured. This was the commonest 

 species of sea-fowl I found breeding at the above islands, though 

 on the Bird rocks several other species are more plentiful. {Rev ^ 

 C. J. Young.) 



