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permit me to do this I will have to be content with the list here 

 given and trust that new species may be added each year until the 

 list is complete. 



List of Species. 



1. .flSchmophorus occidentalis. Western Grebe. — These birds are 

 somewhat rare in this immediate locality but are quite common and nest 

 in very large colonies some sixty miles to the southeast. 



2. Colymbus holboelli. Holbcell's Grebe. — Our most common form 

 of the grebe family, found in nearly every pond and small lake of an acre 

 or more in extent. 



3. Colymbus auritus. Horned Grebe. — Seen on several occasions 

 and found nesting, but not common. 



4. Colymbus nigricollis californicus. Eared Grebe. — Fairly com- 

 mon but not so numerous as Holbcell's Grebe. 



5. Podilymbus podiceps. Pied-billed Grebe. — This is the rarest 

 of the grebes in this locality. 



6. Gavia immer. Loon.— Very numerous. A pair is usually found 

 on every lake of more than an acre in extent and the larger lakes of from 

 five to twenty-five acres have two or more pairs nesting on them. 



7. Larus argentatus. Herring Gull. — A great many are seen during 

 spring and fall, and at times through the summer, but I have not found 

 them nesting. 



8. Larus Philadelphia. Bonaparte's Gull.— Very rare; seen but 

 twice in four years. 



9. Sterna forsteri. Forster's Tern.— I have seen but one pair in 

 this locality but I have authentic report of large colonies some sixty miles 

 to the southeast of here. 



10. Sterna hirundo. Common Tern. — Not very common in this 

 vicinity but quite numerous on some of the larger lakes. 



11. Sterna paradissea. Arctic Tern. — I have seen but one pair in 

 this locality, in 1907. 



12. Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis. Black Tern. Very abun- 

 dant, nesting in nearly every accessible pond or lake, laying their three 

 eggs on a pile of decayed vegetation or on top of a deserted grebe's nest. 



13. Mergus americanus. Merganser. — Seen but once, on the Sas- 

 katchewan River near Edmonton. 



14. Mergus serrator. Red-breasted Merganser. — Very common 

 in the spring and fall but has not been found breeding. 



15. Anas platyrhynchos. Mallard. — Our most abundant duck, 

 nesting either in the sloughs or several hundred yards from the water on 

 the uplands usually covered with deciduous undergrowth. 



16. Nettion carolinensis. Green-winged Teal. — Very common along 

 the smaller and shallower ponds and lakes where it places its nest in the 

 shelter of a bush or under the edge of a pile of brush. 



