NORTH AMERICAN GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES. 



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Pacific Ocean during the winter season apparently do not go south 

 of California and Japan. 



Migration range. — Outside of the regular winter range the species 

 has been noted at Cape Lookout, N. C, April 3, 1897 (Coues); Ber- 

 muda, one large flock in March, 1901, and present until April 28, 1901 

 (Verrill); Erie, Pa., February 22, 1898 (Simpson); Ossining, N. Y., 

 January 19, 1889 (Richardson); Buffalo, N. Y., January 29, 1895 

 (Savage); Millers, Ind., August 8, 1897 (Woodruff); Ottawa, 

 Ontario, December 2, 1905 (Eifrig); Kingston, Ontario, November 



Fig. 8. — Glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus). 



16, 1905 (Beaupr6); London, Ontario, February 1, 1906 (Saunders); 

 Lake Ontario, common in winter, December 8 to March 25, 1889 

 (Mcllwraith) ; Milwaukee, Wis., January 8, 12, and 14, 1895 (Kum- 

 lien and Hollister); Racine, Wis. (Hoy); Kelley Brook, Wis., one, 

 December, 1890 (Schoenebeck) ; Red River, Clay County, Tex., 

 December 17, 1880 (Ragsdale). 



Spring migration. — The first glaucous gulls were noted at Kingwah 

 Fiord, Baffin Land, April 20, 1S78 (Kumlien), though the species 

 had wintered on the open water not far distaut. At the southern 

 end of Greenland, where it also wintered, the numbers were augmented 



