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the food consumed, which shows it to be an eminently useful and 
beneficial bird worthy of all the protection that can be afforded it. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 
PLATE IX. 
Franklin’s Gull (Larus frankliniz), standing onnest. From photograph 
taken at Heron Lake, Jackson Co., Minn., June, 1899. About } natural 
size. 
PLATE X. 
Fig. 1. A distant view of a portion of the nesting site of the Franklin 
Gull Colony at Heron Lake, Minn. From photograph, June, 1899. 
Fig. 2. A pair of Franklin Gulls standing on their floating nest. One 
egg and a chick visible. From photograph taken at Heron Lake, Minn., 
June, 1899. About } natural size. 
PLATE XI. 
Fig.1. A pair of Franklin Gulls with four chicks, in the act of 
following the parents from the nest. From photographs taken at Heron 
Lake, June, 1899. About ;4, natural size. 
Fig. 2. Scene at the Franklin Gull Colony, Heron Lake, Minn., June 16, 
1899. Shows in foreground a nest containing, besides the parent birds, 
twelve chicks, mostly ‘ waifs,’ rescued from the water nearby. 
NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF BAHAMA BIRDS. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
IN THE early part of the year 1893, and again in the spring and 
early summer of 1897, Mr. C. J. Maynard collected a great many 
birds on some of the Bahama Islands — chiefly at Nassau, New 
Providence. Many of these have been distributed, but Mr. May- 
