CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. IIT 
county of Leeds, Ont., ] have found the two eggs four years in 
succession on the 23rd, the 24th, the 25th and the 24th of May. 
On the River St. Lawrence a little later, from the Ist to the 6th 
of June. By the great resemblance each set of eggs has borne to 
the preceding one, I have no doubt but that the same pair of 
birds returns to the same locality year after year. They generally 
arrive at the end of April and leave again in September or Octobere 
I noticed two pairs of these birds at the Magdalen islands 
in June, 1897, and think they breed on the fresh-water ponds of 
the eastern islands. (Rev. C.J. Young.) 
Found breeding at Lake St. Clair and in the small lakes in the 
Bruce peninsula; also at the Pelee marsh, Lake Erie. Nest at 
the edge of the water but on a solid foundation. Eggs, two. (W. 
Saunders.) 
8. Yellow-billed Loon 
Gavia adamsit (GRAY) ALLEN. 1897. 
Abundant at Great Slave lake. (Ross.) During the breeding 
season this species abounds in Franklin and Liverpool bays,on the 
Arctic coast, where several examples were shot. (Macfarlane.) 
One specimen taken at Comox, Vancouver island, by Mr. W. B. 
Anderson ; seen also at Victoria by Mr. Fred. Foster. (Kermode.) 
This fine species, the least known of the loons, is not a rare sum- 
mer resident about the head of Kotzebue sound. (e/son.) 
Twelve specimens taken near Point Barrow. (Mcllhenny.) A 
large loon, either this species or G. zmber was killed and eaten by 
natives at Cold bay and an immature specimen is in the National 
Museum at Washington collected at Igushik, across the river from 
Nushagak, Alaska, September Ist, 1882. (Osgood.) One specimen 
killed by Townsend on St. Paul island, Bering sea, August, 1885. 
(Palmer.) St. Matthew island, Bering sea, 1891. Provably 
breeding. (J. M@. Macoun.) This species seems to prefer the 
extreme northwesterly part of the continent and islands from 
Liverpool bay on the east to the mouth of the Yukon on the 
west. 
BREEDING Notes.—Selawik lake and Kunkuk river are the 
places where it is claimed the greater number breed. The shore 
of Norton sound is a breeding place for a few pairs, as is the low 
