CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 69 
in numbers. Farther north they breed in still greater numbers. 
First seen at Indian Head, Assa., April 18th, 1892; in May they 
came in large flocks and went north to breed. As soon as the 
breeding season is over they come back and feed in the larger 
likes in the district ; the greater number of those that return are 
males. They were breeding in numbers at Long Lake, to the 
northwest of Indian Head, in 1879, and a few on Lake Ste. Anne, 
Alberta, 1898. (Spreadborough.) North to Big Island on the 
Mackenzie River. (Ross.) Not common in British Columbia. 
One specimen taken at Shuswap Lake, October, 1890, by Col. 
Forester. Said to breed in the Chilcotin country. (Fannin.) Mr. 
James McEvoy, of the Geological Survey, saw one on Kamloops 
Lake in October, 1894, and Dr. Dawson saw numbers in lakes in 
the Chilcotin country in June. 1878. These are the only records 
we have of its occurrence in British Columbia. 
BREEDING Notes.—Breeding on Lake Manitoba and Shoal 
Lake, Manitoba, and on Buffalo Lake, Alberta. (D¢pfie.) On 
June 18th, 1894, I found a colony of these birds nesting on a sandy 
island in Shoal Lake, Manitoba. Nest, a hollow in the gravel, 
containing two eggs each. Dr. Shufeldt in his monograph on the 
Pelican, states the bird lays but one egg, but this is an error as 
far as my observation goes. (Raime.) Richardson says they 
deposit their eggs on small rocky islands, and this accords with 
our own knowledge as in the cases mentioned above they were 
breeding on islands. Their nests are merely depressions in the 
gravel or sand, generally lined with an algoid matting that is 
often found blown up on the shere. Eggs, one to three, very 
much like that of the Canada Goose, but the surface of the shell 
is rougher. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One specimen taken on Lake Winnipeg, July, 1884, by Mr. 
Thomas Weston. Four eggs of this species taken on a small 
island at the western end of Lake Winnipegoosis, Manitoba, by 
Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, in June, 1880. 
126. Brown Pelican. 
Pelecanus fuscus LINN. 1766. 
On the 31st May, 1885, a Brown Pelican was seen to alight on 
a salt-water marsh at River John, Pictou Co., Nova Scotia, where 
