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species, I had it thoroughly examined, and it proved to bea male 
Laughing Gull. This, I believe, is the first record of this bird in 
Ontario. (William Cross.) Coast of Nova Scotia. (A.O.U.List.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 
One bought with Holman collection in 1885. 
59. Franklin’s Rosy Gull. 
Larus franklint Sw. & RicH. 1831. 
Accidental on Hamilton Bay, Ont., two specimens shot, one in 
1865, the other later. (MWcllwraith.) Although no specimens of 
this species were taken, I am inclined to believe that they breed 
in the Anderson River district. (Macfarlane,) This is a very 
common gull in the interior of the Northwest Territories, where 
it frequents the shores of the larger lakes. It is generally seen 
in flocks and is very noisy. It breeds in marshy places. (Aechara- 
son.) Shot by Spreadborough at Indian Head, Assa., on May 
20th with stomachs full of grasshoppers, showing they had come 
from far to the south. They are very abundant throughout the 
marshy parts of Manitoba during summer, breeding in nearly all 
large marshes. In Assiniboia they are also abundant and breed 
in great numbers as far west as Cypress Lake, where there are 
marshes. Later in the season they gather in great numbers 
around the larger salt lakes, and mix with the Ring-bill and 
Herring Gulls. 
After they arrive in Manitoba they follow the farmers in the 
fields and gather ‘cut-worms’ and other larve turned up by the 
plough. (Percy Selwyn.) 
BREEDING Nores.—This species, unlike the Herring Gull and 
the Ring-bill, breeds in communities in marshes. Hundreds of 
nests were found June 13th, 1894, in a marshy lake about three 
miles southeast of Crane Lake; incubation was far advanced. 
The nests were very bulky, made of reeds placed on the marsh, 
and floating in about two and a half feet of water. Eggs in each 
case, three. (Spreadborough.) 
Breeds abundantly in the marshes at the south end of Lake 
Manitoba. (Raine. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Five specimens taken at Indian Head, Assa., in June, 1892,and 
at Crane Lake in June, 1894, by Spreadborough. 
