34 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
two eggs each, but five had as many as three. The nest was 
usually a shallow depression in the beach. In one of them we 
discovered an egg of the Black Brant. (Macfarlane.) 
In the summer of 1896 this species was found breeding by the 
large lakes in northern Labrador. (Spreadborough.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One specimen taken off Resolution Island, Hudson Strait, in 
1885 by Dr. Bell. 
There are 14 eggs of this species in our collection Two taken 
at Disco, Greenland, six at Cape Prince of Wales, Hudson Strait ; 
three from an island near Great Whale River, Hudson Bay, and 
three from James Bay. 
42a. Point Barrow Glaucous Gull. Western Glaucous 
Gull. 
Larus barrovianus Ripew. 1886. 
All the islands of Behring Sea and all its dreary coast-line are 
familiar to this great gull. In summer it occurs from the Aleutian 
Islands north to the farthest points reached by the hardy naviga- 
tors in the adjoining Arctic ocean. Common in the Yukon delta. 
(Nelson.) This gull is the earliest to arrive at St. Michael ; few 
breed here, but on the Aleutian Islands it breeds in thousands ; 
at Karluck on Kadiak Island it was in countless thousands in 
August, 1881. (Zzrner.) Abundant at Point Barrow. (JZurdoch.) 
Abundant at Cape Lisburne, Arctic Sea. (Dr. Bean.) They do 
not breed on the Prybiloff Islands, but in large numbers on Walrus 
Island, about six miles from St. Paul Island, to which island 
they come to feed on the dead carcases of seals, and from which 
they carry food to their young on Walrus Island. It is reported 
that they destroy the young seal pups by picking out their eyes. 
(J. M. Macoun.) 
BREEDING Notes.—This bird breeds on Walrus Island where 
there are no foxes. It builds neat nests of sea-ferns and dry 
grass placed among the turfy tussocks on the centre of the 
island. It lays early in June three large eggs of a spherically 
oval shape, which have a dark grayish-brown ground with irre- 
gular patches of darker brown-black. (/7dhoitt.) 
This gull nests in a tussock of grass that may grow in the mid- 
dle of a pond in the lowlands, otherwise foxes might disturb it. 
The nest is built of grass and other material. The eggs are 
