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Port Clarence, July 24, 1897 (Stone), another, September 6 (Bean), 

 and one at the mouth of the Kowak River, May 11, 1899 (Grinnell). 

 It is not probable that the species breeds anywhere north of Bering 

 Strait. It is a common breeder on the southern coast of Alaska, 

 the whole coast of British Columbia, and south to Destruction Island, 

 Wash. (Jones). 



Winter range.— -It winters on Kodiak Island and the Pribilof s, Alaska, 

 and probably some individuals remain at this season on the Aleutians, 

 as they do on the Commander Islands. On the Asiatic side the species 

 winters south to Japan, and on the American side south to Guadalupe 

 Island, Lower California (Kaeding). It is a common winter resident 

 along the United States coast from northern Washington to southern 

 California. 



Spring migration. — This gull was found fairly common on San 

 Martin, Todos Santos, and San Geronimo Islands, Lower California, 

 March 10-15, 1897 (Kaeding), and on Guadalupe Island, March 22, 

 1897 (Kaeding). It remained at Santa Cruz Island, Cal., until May 

 2, 1911 (Howell and Van R ossein), and at Monterey until May 10, 

 1907 (Beck). An immature bird was noted July 4, 1910, at Hyperion, 

 Los Angeles County, Cal., but it must then have been far south of 

 the place where hatched. 



Eggs were taken June 8, 1907, off Cape Johnson, Wash. (Thayer); 

 Carroll Island, Wash., June 19, 1908 (Jones); Mittlenatch Island, 

 Strait of Georgia, B. C, June 18, 1896 (Dawson) ; Sitka, Alaska, June 

 16 to August 4, 1896 (Grinnell) ; Chico Island and Round Island in 

 Akutan Pass, Alaska, June 2, 1872 (Dall) ; Walrus Island, Pribilofs, 

 June 13, 1890 (specimens in U. S. National Museum) ; Berhig Island, 

 June 8, 1882 (Stejneger), Ariz Kamen, May 16, 1883 (Stejneger) ; 

 Houston Stewart Channel, Queen Charlotte Islands (just hatching), 

 July 3, 1900 (Osgood); and young, near Seldovia, Alaska, Juty 11, 

 1903 (Chapman). 



Fall migration. — The first of these gulls was seen at Monterey, Cal., 

 October 30, 1896 (Loomis), and the species was fairly common by 

 November 12. In 1906, the first came to Monterey October 25, 

 (Beck), and, in 1884, to Ventura, November 19 (Evermann). 



Inland the species appeared at Chilliwack, British Columbia, 

 August 26, 1889, and was last noted November 28, 1S88 (Brooks), 

 and has also been observed at Okanogan Lake, British Columbia 

 (Brooks) . Several cases are known of its following ships all the way 

 from the California coast to Hawaii. 



KUMLIEN'S GULL. Larm kumlkni Brewster. 



Little is known of tho distribution or migratory movements of 

 Kumlien's gull. The typo was taken Juno 14, 1878, on Cumberland 

 Sound, where the species nested commonly (Kumlien). It had arrived 



