CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 39 
July 3rd, 1899. Very few large gulis were seen elsewhere about 
the islands, but they were said to breed on the west coast of 
Moresby island. (Osgood.) 
During May, 1877, this bird was abundant about Unalaska, and 
also upon the Akutan and Sannak islands to the east. It breeds 
abundantly on the Near islands, and has been taken at Sitka and 
Kadiak, and extends south to California. The centre of abund- 
ance of this species during summer may be located along the 
Aleutian islands. (Ve/son.) Occurs sparingly at St. Michael, but 
is more common on the Aleutian islands and Kadiak. (Zzrner.) 
Common at Port Clarence, Alaska. (Dr. Bean.) The common 
gull of Sitka, Alaska, and the only one found breeding there. Two 
adults were taken at Orca, Prince William sound. (Gvinnedl.) 
Reported by Stone to be quite common at Homer, Alaska, and a 
few specimens seen at Seldovia. (Chapman.) 
BREEDING Notes.—The usual nesting places of this gull are 
the faces of rugged cliffs, at whose base the waves are continually 
breaking, and where the coast exposes its wildest and most broken 
outline. On the other hand, Mr. Dall relates that about the 18th 
of July, at Coal harbour, on the Shumagins, on a peculiar, high, 
round island, abundance of eggs were found, but most of them 
pretty well incubated. In this case,.the island being covered with 
tall rank grass, the nests were almost concealed, and, either from 
the dead grass naturally occurring in the depressions, or otherwise, 
all of them had more or less dry grass in and about them. The 
gulls built solely on the top of the highest part of the island, in 
the grass, and never on the lower portions near the shore, nor on 
the shelves of the rocky and precipitous sides. (JVelson.) The 
nests found near Sitka were slight hollows in the ground among 
the tall grass on the highest parts of the islands. These nest- 
hollows contained a slight lining of dry grasses. Two or three 
eggs constituteda set. (Grinnell.) 
45. Kumlien Gull. 
Larus kumlient BREWST. 1883. 
This species is quite common in the upper waters of Cumber- 
land gulf, where it breeds; arrived with the open water and 
soon began nesting ; the nest was placed on the shelving rocks 
