CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS, 53 
Point Barrow. (M/urdoch.) They breed in great numbers throughout 
all northern Alaska, both on the coast and in the interior, and on 
the islands in Behring Sea and on the Aleutian Islands. (We/son.) 
Fannin has seen it off the Pacific coast of British Columbia, and 
reports it from Dease Lake in Cassiar and south to Okanagan. 
BREEDING NOTES.—On July 15th, 1895, Mr. Dicks collected some 
clutches of this Tern for me on Green Island, Sandwich Bay, 
Labrador. Nests in a hollow in the rocks, containing two or three 
eggs each. This bird also breeds on the islands of Mackenzie 
Bay, Arctic Ocean, where eggs were collected for me on June 2oth, 
1894. Nests, holes in the sand. (Raine.) 
The Arctic Tern is one of the earliest birds to arrive at St. Michael, 
Alaska. They become very abundant by the middle of May. 
They breed on the low grounds, preferably on a low, damp 
island, such as those at the northern end of the “canal.” 
On this place hundreds of nests were discovered in 1876. The 
nest is merely a bare spot on the ground ; sometimes on y a few 
blades of grass surround the margin of the nest, but these seem 
to be more the result of cleaning off a bare spot than an attempt 
to construct a nest. The eggs vary from one to two, never more. 
( Turner.) 
On June 12th I found a nest upon a small wet islet near St. 
Michael, The island was covered with short grass. The nest 
was lined with a few dry grass-stems and contained two eggs, and 
the female bore another ready to deposit. Another nest similarly 
situated was lined with material procured within a few feet, and 
the ground was turned up in small spots all about where the 
birds had uprooted the grass, many small bunches being half 
uprooted and left, the task proving too heavy. (/Velson.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
We have two specimens taken on Sable Island, N.S., August 
16th, 1899. 
Our egg collection contains one set of eggs from the coast of 
Labrador procured from Mr. Raine; one from Cape Prince of 
Wales and another egg from Repulse Bay, Hudson Strait, taken 
by Mr. Guy in 1896. In July 1894, Dr. Klotz, Astronomer of the 
Department of the Interior, took a nest containing two eggs on 
the border of the Baird Glacier, Thomas Bay, Alaska. There 
was no pretense of a nest, only a hollow in the ground. 
