56 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
_Alaska, both on the coast and in the interior, and on the islands 
in Bering sea and on the Aleutian islands. (/Velson.) Fannin has 
seen it off the Pacific coast of British Columbia, and reports it 
from Dease lake in Cassiar and south to Okanagan. Two speci- 
mens seen by Rhoads on Upper Arrow lake, B.C., were thought 
to be this species. 
BREEDING Notes.—On July 15th, 1895, Mr. Dicks collected 
some clutches of this tern for me on Green island, Sandwich bay, 
Labrador. Nests in a hollow in the rocks, containing two or three 
eggs each. This bird also breeds on the islands of Mackenzie 
bay, Arctic ocean, where eggs were collected for me on June 2oth, 
1894. Nests, holes inthe sand. (azne.) Nesting everywhere 
on the sand on Sable island with a preference to sand bars and 
lake shores. (W. Saunders.) 
Dhe) arctietern) isone ofthe! earliest birds to varriveyabiote 
Michael, Alaska. They become very abundant by the middle of 
May. They breed on the low grounds, preferably ona low, damp 
island, such as those at the northern end of the “canal.” On this 
place hundreds of nests were discovered in 1876. The nest is 
merely a bare spot on the ground; sometimes only a few blades 
of grass surround the margin of the nest, but these seem to be 
more the result of cleaning off a bare spot than an attempt to con- 
struct a nest. The eggs vary from one to two, never more, 
( Zurner.) 
On June 12th I found a nest upon a small wet islet near St, 
Michael. The island was covered with short grass. The nest was 
lined with a few dry grass-stems and contained two eggs, and the 
female bore another ready to deposit. Another nest similarly 
situated was lined with material procured within a few feet, and 
the ground was turned up in small spots all about where, the birds 
had uprooted the grass, many small bunches being half uprooted 
and left, the task proving too heavy. (JVe/son.) 
72. Roseate Tern. 
Sterna dougalltt MONTAG. 1813. 
Rare on the coast of Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Recorded on the 
authority of Col. Thomas Egan, who assures me a specimen was 
lately obtained and is now in the possession of Mr. John Rowe of 
