468 THE BIRDS OF MANITOBA — THOMPSON. 



lakes in the forest country; saw some on Red Deer Lake; never more 

 than a pair together; never saw it in the prairie region (Macoun). 

 Riding Mountain: June, 1884 (Thompson). Shell River: 1885, first 

 seen, a pair on May 4; afterwards, seen every day ; is common all sum- 

 mer and breeds here (Calcutt). Qu Appelle : Common summer resident, 

 breeds; arrives April 28 (Guernsey). Severn House (Murray). 



Athinue inoqua, or Great Northern Diver. This elegant bird is sehlom seen on the 

 seacoasts, but resides among the lakes above 100 miles to the southward of York Fort, 

 for which reason they are called the inland loons. (Hutchins'sMSS. Observations on 

 Hudson's Bay, 1782.) 



7. Urinator arcticus. Black-throated Loon. 



Recorded by Andrew Murray, from Severn House, and therefore 

 probably Manitoban. 



8. Urinator lumme. Red-throated Loon. 



Winnipeg : Rare (Hine). Norway House (Bell). 



Assee raoqua, or Red-throated Diver. * * * It appears in these parts when the 

 rivers are open and retires about the end of September. Its note is harsh and disa- 

 greeable, like squalling. They make no nest, only lining the place with a little down 

 from the breast, on which they deposit their eggs towards the end of June ; they are 

 of a stone color and only two in number. The young ones fly before the end of 

 August. They live chiefly on fish and are excellent divers, and so very troublesome 

 to the nets that I have this summer taken out fourteen of them that were caught in 

 one tide at a single net. (Hutchins's Observations on Hudson's Bay, 1782.) 



9. Cepphus mandtii. Mandt's Guillemot. 



Severn House (Murray). This species may be named as probably 

 Manitoban on the above grounds. 



10. Larus argentatus smithsonianus. American Herring Gull. 



Summer resident about the larger bodies of water ; breeding in great 

 numbers at Lake Winnipeg (D. Guuu). Specimen from Nelson River, 

 inSmithsonian Institution (Blakiston). Oak Point: 1884, arrived April 

 21 ; 1885, first seen, two, on April 18; next seen, two, on 19th; is com- 

 mon, and breeds here (Small). Breeding in all the large prairie lakes 

 (Macoun). Portage la Prairie : Occurs during the spring and autumn 

 migrations (Nash). Severn House (Murray). 



The island on which we were detained by a storm, is one of the Gull-egg group, 

 which, with a point of land protruding from the main laud, forms a pretty good har- 

 bor ou the south side of the neck of the great promontory. The Indians were nearly des- 

 titute of provisions and followed us to the island, where they fortunately got a plenti- 

 ful supply of eggs and young gulls; but having little ammunition, they brought 

 down only a few old ones, although they hovered in countless numbers over the 

 island, screaming at the wholesale destruction of their young brood. (Hurd, August 

 24, 1858.) 



11. Larus delawarensis. Ring-billed Gull. 



Summer resident, near Mouse River, on the boundary, in September 

 (Coues). Winnipeg : Summer resident, tolerably common, and at Lake 



