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Alberta, 1898. (Spreadborough.) North to Big island on the 
Mackenzie river. (oss.) An American white pelican was taken 
by an Eskimo in June or July,1g00, on the shores of Liverpool 
bay, lat. 70° W., long. 128°, on the shores of the Arctic sea. 
It is now in my collection. (J. A. Fleming.) Not common in 
British Columbia. One specimen taken at Shuswap lake, Octo- 
ber, 1890, by Col. Forester. Said to breed in the Chilcotin coun- 
try. (Fannin.) Mr. James McEvoy, of the Geological Survey, 
saw one on Kamloops lake in October, 1894. Mr. Khoads saw a 
specimen which had been taken on Lake Okanagan, and Dr. 
Dawson saw numbers in lakes in the Chilcotin country in June, 
1878. These are the only records we have of its occurrence in 
British Columbia. 
BreEpDiNG Notes.—Breeding on Lake Manitoba and Shoal lake, 
Manitoba, and on Buffalo lake, Alberta. (Dzppze.) On June 18th, 
1894, I found a colony of these birds nesting on a sandy island in 
Shoal lake, Manitoba. Nest, a hollow in the gravel, containing 
two eggs each. Dr. Shufeldt in his monograph on the pelicans 
states the bird lays but one egg, but this is an error as far as my 
observation goes. (Aaze.) Richardson says they deposit their 
eggs on small rocky islands, and this accords with our own know- 
ledge as in the cases mentioned above they were breeding on 
islands. Their nests are merely depressions in the gravel or sand, 
generally lined with an algoid matting that is often found blown 
up on the shore. Eggs, one to three, very much like those of the 
Canada goose, but the surface of the shell is rougher. 
126. Brown Pelican. 
Pelecanus fuscus LINN. 1766. 
On the 31st May, 1885, abrown pelican was seen to alight ona 
salt-water marsh at River John, Pictou co., Nova Scotia, where it 
was approached without much difficulty and killed. Upon ex- 
amination the body was found to be emaciated and the pouch 
entirely empty. This specimen is now in the museum at Pictou 
academy. On the first of June, 1893, an adult male of the same 
species was shot on Pictou island by Mr.J.W. Hogg. A third 
specimen vas shot by the same gentleman on May 15th, 1895 at 
the east end of Pictou island. The latest record we have for this 
