42 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
This species is the most widely diffused of all our gulls and is 
as much at home breeding in the far inland lakes as along the 
coast of the Atlantic, around Hudson bay, along the shores of the 
Arctic seas or on the upper Yukon. We have records of its breeding 
in Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Que- 
bec, Ontario, Manitoba, throughout the whole prairie region and 
north to Hudson bay and the Arctic sea, and across the Rocky 
mountains to the upper Yukon, where Dall found it breeding in 
numbers. Fannin reports it breeding on the coast of British 
Columbia and also in the interior. 
BREEDING Nores.—Breeding in large numbers on an island in 
Crane lake, Sask., between June gth-18th, 1894. Nest, a shallow 
hole in the ground lined with dry grass and weeds. Eggs, three 
as arule; never more. A number of the young were hatched by 
June oth, but the greater number about the 18th, when many 
young were running about the island, and some took to the water 
and swam away. The men on Crane Lake farm said that the old 
birds killed gophers (Spermophilus Richardsoni) and fed them to 
their young. (Spreadboroxgh.) This species breeds in numbers at 
Buffalo lake, Alberta. (Dzppie.) 
I found this species breeding abundantly at Shoal lake, Mani- 
toba, on June 18th, 1894. The nests were built onthe ground on 
the islands, were composed of weeds, and contained three eggs 
each. (azne.) 
The herring gull is acommon species along the St. Lawrence. 
A few years ago it used to breed on Pigeon island and the Lower 
Ducks, Lake Ontario, but owing to constant disturbance it no 
longer breeds in those places, and I doubt if any now nest around 
Lake Ontario. It is still plentiful in the neighbourhood of Parry 
Sound, Lake Huron, and on other lakes in northern Ontario. 
(Rev. C. J. Young.) 
This gull breeds on the small islands off the coast of Bruce 
co., Ont., in the Georgian bay and off Manitoulin island. Nest 
in a dry situation. The fishermen take the eggs for food in con- 
siderable quantities. I have one egg taken by them which is of 
a light blue colour, and unspotted. No eggs that I saw were other 
than this species, though it seems probable that the ring-billed 
gull, which is very common in Georgian bay, may also breed in 
the same localities. (W. Saunders.) 
