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is not known to breed anywhere in Greenland nor on the islands north 

 of Europe. It has wandered once to Jan Mayen (Schalow) , to Fred- 

 erickshaab, Greenland (Walker), and to a few other places on the 

 west coast of Greenland (Schalow). In northwestern North America 

 there seems to be no sure breeding record north of near Mount McKin- 

 ley (Sheldon), and the middle Yukon (Dall). 



The breeding range extends south to Babine Lake, British Col- 

 umbia; Shoal Lake, Manitoba; Mille Lacs, Minn. (Roberts); the 

 islands in Lake Michigan at the mouth of Green Bay (Van Winkle) ; 

 the Sisters and Strawberry Island in Green Bay, Wis. (Palmer) ; Little 

 Charity Island, Saginaw Bay, Mich. (Wood and Gaige) ; the lakes of 

 southern Ontario (Clarke); near Wilmurt, N. Y. (eggs in U. S. 



Fig. 19. — Herring gull (Larus argentatus), adult in winter plumage. 



National Museum); Four Brothers, Lake Champlain (Jordan); on 

 the outer islands of the Maine coast west to No Mans Land Island in 

 Penobscot Bay (Knight) ; and in Nova Scotia south to Kentville 

 (Bishop). 



In Europe the species breeds east to the White Sea and south to 

 northern France (Saunders). 



Winter range. — A few herring gulls sometimes remain in the Gulf 

 of St. Lawrence all through the winter, as they did at North River, 

 Prince Edward Island, the winter of 1888-89 (Bain), and at this 

 season they are abundant on the Maine coast and southward. In 

 the interior they are common on all the Great Lakes until the ice 

 forms ; many remain through the winter on Lake Erie, and some even 

 on Lake Superior. On the Pacific coast the species winters north to 

 northern Washington. 



