CATALOGUE CF CANADIAN BIRDS. 7a 
three weeks in advance of the other waterfowl, almost without 
exception. The nest is large, carefully rounded up, and built on 
some jutting point or narrow shelf along the face of a cliff or 
bluff ; in its construction, sea-ferns (Sertularid@), grass, etc., are 
used, together with a cement made largely of excrement. The 
eggs are usually three in number, sometimes four, and, compared 
with the size of the bird, are exceedingly small. They are oval, 
of a dirty whitish-gray, green and blue colour, but soon become 
soiled, for although this bird’s plumage is sleek and bright, yet it 
is very slovenly and filthy about its nest. (47//oifz.) 
Famity XII]. PELECANIDA:. PeEticans. 
XLI. PELECANUS Linnaeus. 1758. 
125. American White Pelican. 
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos GMEL. 1788. 
Accidental in New Brunswick; one shot at Point du Chéne and 
another at Cape Spenser. (Chamberlain.) A fine specimen of 
this species was taken two miles south of Manotick, Ont., by John 
Flann, jr. (J. F. Whiteaves.) Mr. P. C. Jones shot a specimen on 
the Bay of Quinté, about eight miles from Belleville, Ont. (W 
Saunders.) Stragglers are occasionally taken on Lake Ontario 
and others on Lake Erie, but there are no accounts of its breeding 
in any part of Ontario. 
Found on all the large lakes throughout northern Manitoba and 
Saskatchewan. According to Seton they formerly bred on Shoal 
lake in Manitoba, but the settling of the. country has caused them 
to move farther north. The writer has found them on Lake Win- 
nipegosis, Long lake, Old Wives lake, the Great Quill lakes and 
Crane lake, where they were breeding in numbers. Further north 
they breed in still greater numbers. 
First seen at Indian Head, Sask., April 18th, 1892; in May 
they came in large flocks and went north to breed. As soon as 
the breeding season is over they come back and feed in the larger 
lakes in the district; the greater number of those that return are 
males. They were breeding in numbers at Long lake, to the 
northwest of Indian Head, in 1879, and a few on Lake Ste. Anne, 
