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BULLETIN 292, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 



April 24, 1903 (Bowman); Harrisburg, N. Dak., April 25, 1904 

 (Eastgate); and the last at Catalina Island, CaL, May 12, 1897 (Grin- 

 nell); Monterey, CaL, May 19, 1897 (Loomis); and San Jose del 

 Cabo, Lower California, May 17, 1882 (Belding). 



Eggs have been taken 

 at Pyramid Lake, Nev., 

 May 16, 1868, May 15, 

 1875, and June 4, 1891 

 (specimens in U. S. Na- 

 tional Museum); Car- 

 rington Island in Great 

 Salt Lake, June 17, 1869 

 (Kidgway) ; Fort Reso- 

 lution, Mackenzie, June 

 26, 1860 (specimens in 

 U. S. National Mu- 

 seum) ; young just 

 hatched, at Big Stick 

 Lake, Saskatchewan, 

 June 14, 1906 (Bent); 

 and young, a few days 

 old, on Loon Island, 

 Great Slave Lake, July 

 13, 1901 (Preble). 



Fall migration. — A 

 single California gull, 

 unusually early, ap- 

 peared at Monterey, 

 CaL, August 1, 1894; no 

 more were seen until 

 August 21, and by the 

 first of September the 

 species was fairly com- 

 mon. In 1896 the first 

 was not seen until Sep- 

 tember 28, the next 

 October 9, and it was 

 common from this lat- 

 ter date (Loomis). At 

 Berkeley, CaL, the first 

 was seen October 9, 1888 (Palmer); near San Pedro, CaL, Sep- 

 tember 13, 1902 (Daggett); Magdalena Island, Lower California, 

 November 24, 1905 (Nelson and Goldman); Puget Sound, Wash., 

 August 3 and 12 (specimens in U. S. National Museum); and 

 Chilliwack, British Columbia, August 26, 1889 (Brooks). The last 

 was seen at Hay River, Mackenzie, November 5, 1908 (Jones). 



Fig. 21.— California gull {Larus californkus). 



