734 MICHIGAN JilKI) LIFE. 



the ground and lay.s three or four eggs, which ai'e ])ah; buff, si)otted with 

 various shades of hi-own and gray, and average 2.13 by 1.53 inches. 



TKCHNICAL DESCRIPTION, 



Eastern form, C. s. .scinipalmatus (for comparison). 



"Primaries blackish, with nearly the basal lialf white, i)roducing a very consi)icuous 

 ]iatch on the spread wing. Summer adult: Above l>rownisli gray, irreguhirly varied 

 with dusky; lower parts white, tinged with grayisli on foreneck and buff along sides, the 

 former with chest streaked or spotted with dusky, the latter barred with the same. Winter 

 plumage: Above plain ash-gray; beneath immaculate white, the foreneck shaded with 

 grayish. Young: Above brownish gray, the feathers margined with buff or jjale ochra- 

 ceous; sides much tinged with the same, and finely mottled transversely with grayish. 

 Length 15 to 17 inches; wing 7.50 to 9; culmen 1.90 to 2.60; tarsus 1.95 to 2.85" (Ridgway). 



Western form, C. s. inornatus. Male and female, breeding plumage: — 



" Differing from S. semipalmatus in being larger, with a longer, slenderer bill; the dark 

 markings above fewer, finer, and fainter, on a much paler (grayish-drab) ground; those 

 beneath duller, more confused or broken, and bordered by pinkish-salmon, whi<"h often 

 spreads over or suffuses the entire underparts, excei^ting the abdomen. Middle tail- 

 feathers either quite immaculate or very faintly barred. Measurements: Wing, 7.88 

 to 8.26 inch.; tail, 3.10—3.50; tarsus, 2.45—2.95; culmen, 2.28—2.70" (Brewster, 

 Auk, IV, 1887, 145-146). 



ADDITIONAL NOTES ON A FEW SPECIES. 



1. HolbcElIs Grebe. Colymbus holboelli. 



Mr. A. (1. Baumgartel, of Grand Rapids, informs us that he mounted 

 a specimen for the museum of Hope College, Holland, IMich., which was 

 killed in that vicinity in 1S94. "' 



6. Brunnich's Murre. Uria lomvia lomvia. 



A specimen was shot near Kalamazoo on Thanksgiving Day, 1907, 

 and mounted by E. H. Crane of that city, who has the specimen. 



7. Little Auk. Alle alle. 



A Lake Michigan record of this interesting bird is furnished by a 

 specimen killed .January 11, 1908, along the ice fringe of Lake Michigan 

 near Port Washington, Wis., and now preserved in the Public ]\Iuseuin 

 of the City of Milwaukee. It appeared to be an adult in ordiiuiry winter 

 plumage (Henry L. Ward, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc, VI, April 1908). 



15. Ring-billed Gull. Larus delawarensis. 



Mr. W. E. Saunders of London, Out., found this species nesting in large 

 numbers on an island off the Canadian shore of Lake Huron, near the 

 Bruce Peninsula, in June 1905; again, in 1906, he visited another island, 

 about fifty miles southwest of the one just mentioned, and found the 

 Ring-l)ills nesting there in equal numbers (Wilson Bulletin No. 59, June, 

 1907, 73-74). 



16. Franklin's Gull. Larus franklini. 



Mr. A. G. Baumgartel, of Grand Rapids, writes us that he mounted 

 a specimen of this gull for a farmer, who took it on the "Big INIarsh," 



