18 NE8T8 AND EGOS OF 



28. MANDT'S GUILLEMOT. fV/j/*/ M x ma ml Hi (Licht.) Geog. Dist.- 



ns of both continents: south on the Atlantic coast of North America in winter 

 to N breeding to Hudson's Bay and Labrador; Alaskan coast, south in win- 



ter to Norton Sound. 



The Sea Pigeon, as it Is called, breeds abundantly on the coast and islands of 



undnnt from Labrador and Hudson's Bay norih- 



:. nesting in the holes and crevices of rocks, often in the most inaccessible 

 s. The eggs are laid in June and July. The usual complement is two, often 

 from white to a pale greenish-white, light drab, yellow or buff, 

 .uly with spots and blotches of different shades of brown and : 

 st at the great end, where they are usually almost a confluent ring; tbey are 

 oval or elliptical in form; size about 2.30x1.55, but, like nearly all eggs in a large 

 series, there is a great variation in the size, shape, and also in the style of mark- 

 Ings, 



29. PIGEON GUILLEMOT. <> />/>// n* coin in ha (Pall.) Geog. Dist. Coasts 

 and islands of the North Pacific, southward from Bering Strait to Northern Japan 



outhern California. 



On the Pacific coast of North America this species is found breeding from San 

 'las Island northward to the islands of Bering Sea. Dr. Leonhard Stejneger 

 says that it is ;i .unon bird on Bering and Copper Islands; its eggs \vere col- 



lected at th- latter place June 16th. Mr. Taylor says: "The Pigeon Guillemot (so 

 Ilemot and so like a Pigeon) is found in rather limited numbers [on the 

 1 Most interesting are these pretty, graceful birds looking so petite and 

 ^t among an army of clamoring Gulls. I believe the questioned statement that 

 .all stones for a nest is true, in most instances. I noted the Hat siones 

 and pebbles about their eggs often and they did not appear to be accidental."! Mr. 

 son says egg-laying on tin- Kara lions begins about the first of May, or shortly 



'ontinues into July. Two eggs is the number laid, and they an- dejn 

 in the crevices of rocks or in dark nooks under boulders, often near the water's 

 If the eggs a; the foolish bird will lay a^ain in the same place. The 



favorite resting place of these birds is on the rock just above the foaming surf, where 



1 with one another in low whistling notes. In a large 



aeries Of eggs the ground color varies from li^ht pearl uray to i:Teenish-blue: their 

 gem i rounded oval at the larm- end and point- 



ed at the small- two shades of lilac; in some they arc thickly 



"fin a circle about tin- laru<T end. 



iio average measurment of twenty-five sets of two c^s each In 

 Mr. Emer rlnn as, 61.6 by 41.4 mm.f Extremes in size, 66.5 by 41.5, 58.5 by 



41 millimeters. 



30. MURRE. og. Dist. Coast and islands of th. 



Atlat ' < th America in winter to Southern New Eng- 



land: breeding from 



m;ui'1' r Islands nnd K:imts b nh:u<l St.i 







| 2.62x1.63. 2.30x 



