402 General Notes. [q"!^ 



authentic record of gulls breeding at this spot during a period of twenty 

 or twenty-five j'ears existed. The rock is nothing but a granite boulder 

 some ten or twelve feet across, and Gull Lake is remarkable chiefly for the 

 absence of gulls. In a lonely little pond called Pine Lake we found two 

 pairs of Herring Gulls {Larus argetitaUis) breeding on small rocks (May 31). 

 Their nests were carefully constructed of dried moss and grass, and in 

 addition one had several pine cones imbedded in its walls. 



The first nest found was about two feet and a half from the water, and 

 was placed in a hollow in the rock. It contained three eggs almost hatched. 

 The second nest was almost on a level with the water, and contained but 

 one ^^g, quite fresh. The birds were much annoyed at our intrusion and 

 perched on pine trees while we were photographing the nest and examin- 

 ing the surroundings. The fact that the ^^^ in the second nest was fresh 

 led us to suppose that a ti-agedy had overtaken the first nest, as a violent 

 gale would certainly cause the sea to sweep the rock on which the birds 

 had established themselves. It is more than probable that the Herring 

 Gulls breed on the islands in many of the lonely northern lakes of On- 

 tario. 



In a former issue of ' The Auk ' I reported the Green Heron {Butorides 

 virescens) as breeding on the shores of Charleston Lake ; this year I have 

 found it breeding in a bay on Loughboro Lake, twenty miles north of 

 Kingston, and from reports given have not the slightest doubt that it will 

 be found at various points along the so-called Rideau Canal. — C. K. 

 Clarke, M. D., Kingston, Ontario. 



Additional Notes on the Birds of Okanogan (Chelan) County, Wash- 

 ington. — Okanogan County as constituted at the time of the publication 

 of the ' Preliminary List ' (Auk, April, 1S97, pp. 168-182) has since been 

 divided, the northern portion retaining the name. The southern half, 

 Chelan Coimty, embraces the region south of the Methow divide and also 

 the Wenatshee valley which used to belong to Kittitas County. 



This change effects only a few species given in the list of 1S97. The 

 rest were recorded in what is now Chelan County. The exceptions are, 

 Habia tnelanocephala, Setofhaga ruiicilla, and Troglodytes aedon aztecus. 



During the summer of 1900, Prof. Lynds Jones of Oberlin, O., and 

 myself visited Chelan County. We spent a couple of days at the foot 

 of Lake Chelan, and were intending to put in at least four weeks in the 

 hio-h mountains west of the lake, pajing special attention to the mountain 

 avifauna. A disastrous camp-fire which occurred during the first week 

 of our stay obliged us, however, to abandon our plans and to make a 

 rather hurried exit. Our list of additions to the Chelan County records 

 is therefore quite meagre and still to be accounted ' preliminary.' 



The following new species were recorded : 



Tringa bairdii. Baird's Sandpiper. — A single individual was seen 

 feeding on the shore and floating ice blocks of the glacier lake on 

 Wright's Peak. A similar bird was seen in the same situation in August, 

 1895 ; but not thoroughly identified as this one was. 



