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ward. I found it on Dease lake during the summer. (Fannin!) 

 Common in the lower Fraser valley, and on Lake Okanagan, B.C. 

 in winter. (Brooks) One observed at Douglas, B. C, 1906. 

 (Spreadborough.) 



Breeding Notes. — Very abundant and breeding in great num- 

 bers on an island in Crane lake. Nests on the ground made of 

 dry grass, smaller than those of the herring gull. Eggs, never 

 more than three, while a few nests contained only two. A num- 

 ber of the young were hatched by June gth, and the bulk of the 

 nests had young by the i8th June, 1894. This species breeds later 

 than the herring gull. A few were observed breeding at Deep 

 lake, near Indian Head, Sask., June 3rd, 1892. (^Spreadborough.) 

 This species breeds at Buffalo lake, Alberta. {Dippie.) I have 

 found this species breeding at Rush lake, Sask., and at Shoal lake, 

 Manitoba. It makes its nest on the ground and lays three eggs. 

 {Raine.) 



55. Short-billed Gull. 



Larus brachyrhynchus Rich. 183 i. 



A specimen shot in the vicinity of Quebec is now in the museum 

 of Laval University. (Dionne.) More numerous and widely dif- 

 fused than the other gulls. Many nests were procured at Fort 

 Anderson, lat. 68° 30'. {Macfarlane .) Type specimen killed on 

 Bear lake. May 26th, 1826. (^Richardson.) A winter resident on 

 the coast of British Columbia; during the early part of May, 1891, 

 I saw quite a number on the lakes of the Cariboo district where 

 it probably breeds. (^Fannin.') Common in the lower Fraser 

 valley, B.C. {Brooks.) This elegant species is abundant over a 

 large part of the Alaskan mainland. Dall found it at Sitka and 

 Kadiak, and from Fort Yukon to the sea along the Yukon river. 

 It is found nesting from the peninsula of Alaska north to the 

 head of Kotzebue sound and from the coast region it breeds 

 interiorly over Alaska into British Columbia. (Nelson.) From 

 Lake Marsh, Yukon, down the Yukon to below Little Salmon 

 river and then at St. Michael. {Bishop.) Abundant on the Aleutian 

 islands. (Turner.) 



Breeding Notes. — At the Yukon mouth and St. Michael, May 

 14th is the earliest date they were noticed in spring. As a rule, 



