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Homer (Chapman); Montague Island (Grinnell); Yakutat (Black- 

 welder); and Glacier Bay (Fisher). Inland it breeds south to Lake 

 Marsh (Bishop) ; Hot Springs and Pike River, Atlin, British Columbia 

 (Kermode) ; and is a common breeder in the Mackenzie Valley south 

 to the lower Slave River (Preble) and to the Chariot River on Lake 

 Athabaska (Harper). 



Winter range — This gull winters on the Pacific coast from Van- 

 couver Island (Kermode) to extreme southern California at San Diego 



Fig. 23. — Short-billed gull (Larvj brachyrhynchus). 



(Henshaw), and occasionally as far north as Sitka, Alaska, where it 

 was taken in December 1865, and January, 1866 (specimens in U. S. 

 National Museum) . 



There are three records of extensive wanderings: One was taken 

 near Quebec City, Canada (Dionne); one on the Kuril Islands in 

 February (Saunders), and a specimen now in the collection of the 

 Biological Survey was taken August 28, 1893, on Lake Fork, in the 

 Wind River Mountains, Wyo., at 10,000 feet altitude (Bailey). 



