l6 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



Breeding Notes. — This species breeds abundantly on Gannet 

 islands on the coast of Labrador. Mr. Dicks collected for me a 

 number of eggs on July 2nd, 1895, o" these islands. The nests 

 consisted of holes in the ground and the single egg is laid at the 

 end of the burrow. (Raine.) Still breeds in comparative abundance 

 on many of the outlying islands along the Labrador coast. 

 {Bigelow.) 



This bird breeds sparingly at Bryon island, the most northerly 

 of the Magdalen group, and plentifully on Great Bird rock, 

 eleven miles distant. I met v/ith three nests at the former place, 

 23rd June, 1897. One egg was laid in a hole in the crumbling 

 rock, and at that date incubation had commenced. No nest is 

 formed, the egg being laid on the bare earth. At Bryon island 

 the breeding holes are difficult to reach, and as the bird sits 

 closely there may be more of them than I supposed. One nest 

 was IS much as three feet from the entrance to the hoje. (Jiev. 

 C.J. Young.) . -t'uKuj fiu' 



]3a. Large-billed Puffin. nwob n-i' 



Fratercula arctica naumaiini Norton. 1901. 



Coasts and islands of the Arctic ocean from Spitzbergen to 

 Baffin bay. {A. 0. U. List.) One obtained at Grand Manan, New 

 Brunswick. [Atidubon.) Not common in Greenland ; does not 

 breed further south than Lat. 63° 30' N. {Arct. Man.) 



B.tJEEDiNG Habits. — I have eggs of this species in my collec- 

 tion which were taken in Greenland, June 20th, 1889. The eggs 

 are considerably larger than those of the common puffin. 

 {Raine.) 



14. Horned Puffin. 



Fratercula rorniculata (Naum.) Brandt. 1837. 



Coasts and islands of the North Pacific from the Kurile islands 

 to British Columbia. {A. 0. U. List.) Rare at Massett, Queen 

 Charlotte islands, B.C. (Kermode.) Breeding abundantly on 

 all the rocky islands in Bering sea. (Nelson.) This species 

 is abundant on all the shore-line of Alaska south of the Arctic 

 circle, and in favored localities it abounds in incredible numbers. 

 All the Aleutian islands with their east and west extensions are a 



