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Baffin bay but rare in the Polar sea. (Arct. Man.) Not common 
in Hudson bay or strait. Found there in the winter, but rarely 
seen in the summer. Very abundant along the north Greenland 
coast, less so along the western side of Baffin bay. Seen in Lan- 
caster sound. (A. P. Low.) Ellsemere island. Commonest in 
Kane basin. (&. Bay.) Common on the coast of Labrador off 
Resolution island, Grinnell bay and Frobisher strait, but did 
not see any in Cumberland gulf; they are abundant off Exeter 
sound and to the northward on the west coast of Baffin bay. 
(Kumelin.) Godbout, River St. Lawrence, Quebec. (Déonne.) A 
dovekie was shot Nov. 18th, 1901, by H. Macdonald, a fisherman, 
two miles out in the lake from Toronto, Ont. I was present when 
he opened the stomach, which was empty except for a few small 
fish bones. It was a female and evidently a young bird. (/. H. 
Ames.) 
BREEDING Notes.—I have a number of the eggs of this bird from 
Iceland. Dr. Shufeldt has stated in his “Comparative Orders of 
North American Birds” that this bird lays two eggs, but my col- 
lector in Iceland has never found more than one egg to a clutch, 
and has been collecting for fifteen years. Most British ornitho- 
logical writers state this bird lays only one egg. It deposits its 
single pale greenish-blue egg in crevices of the sea-cliffs. Breeds 
in Greenland on Smith sound. (Aazne.) 
OrpvER. LONGIPENNES. Lonc-winckep SwWDOIMeErs. 
Famity IV. STERCORARIIDA:. Skxuas anv JAEGERsS. 
XVIII. MEGALESTRIS Bonaparte. 1856. 
35. The Common Skua. | 
Megalestris skua (BRUNN.) Ripew. 1880. 
Seen twice on the south coast of Greenland by Holbeell. (4rez. 
Man.) One seen sitting in the water in the straits of Belle Isle. 
June 22nd, 1882. (Packard.) Not very common in winter and 
spring around Nova Scotia. (Dowmns.) Seen off the coast of New 
Brunswick. (Adams.)- Occasional in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
(Dionne.) Great Slave lake, very rare. (Ross.) Appears to be 
of frequent occurrence on * The George’s,” Newfoundland, and on 
