68 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
124. Red-faced Cormorant. 
Phalacrocorax urile (GMEL.) Ripew. 1884 
This is a resident species on the Prybiloff Islands. It isa more 
or less common summer resident on St. Matthew and St. Law- 
rence islands as well as upon all the cliffs on both shores of 
Behring Strait and the islands in the strait. (JVe/son.) A single 
specimen of this bird was obtained at St. Michael. I did not 
see it elsewhere. (Zurner.) 
BREEDING Notes.—This species is the earliest of the birds in 
Behring Sea to lay its eggs. Two eggs from a bed on “‘the reef,” 
St. Paul Island, June Ist, 1872, nearly hatched, which is nearly 
three weeks in advance of the other waterfowl, almost without 
exception. The nest is large, carefully rounded up, and built on 
some jutting point or narrow shelf along the face of a cliff or 
bluff; in its construction sea-ferns (Sertularid@), grass, etc., are 
used, together with a cement made largely of excrement. The 
eggs are usually three in number, sometimes four, and, compared 
with the size of the bird, are exceedingly small. They are oval, 
of a dirty whitish-gray, green and blue colour, but soon become 
soiled, for although this bird’s plumage is sleek and bright, yet 
it is very slovenly and filthy about its nest. (//zo¢z.) 
FamiLy XII. PELECANIDA:. PE icans. 
XLI. PELECANUS  Linneus. 1758. 
125. American White Pelican. 
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos GMEL. 1788. 
Accidental in New Brunswick; one shot at Point du Chéne 
and another at Cape Spenser. (Chamberlain.) Stragglers are 
occasionally taken on Lake Ontario and others on Lake Erie, 
but there are no accounts of its breeding in any part of Ontario. 
Found on all the large lakes throughout northern Manitoba 
and Assiniboia and Saskatchewan. According to Thompson they 
formerly bred on Shoal Lake in Manitoba, but the settling of the 
country has caused them to move farther north. The writer has 
found them on Lake Winnipegoosis, Long Lake, Old Wives Lake, 
the Great Quill Lakes and Crane Lake, where they were breeding 
