CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. II 



county of Leeds, Ont., I have found the two eggs four years in 

 succession on the 23rd, the 24th, the 25th and the 24th of May. 

 On the River St. Lawrence a little later, from the ist to the 6th 

 of June. By the great resemblance each set of eggs'has borne to 

 the preceding one, I have no doubt but that the same pair of 

 birds returns to the same locality year after year. They generally 

 .arrive at the end of April and leave again in September or October» 

 I noticed two pairs of these birds at the Magdalen islands 

 in June, 1897, and think they breed on the fresh-water ponds of 

 the eastern islands. {Rev. C.J. Young.) 



Found breeding at Lake St. Clair and in the small lakes in the 

 Bruce peninsula ; also at the Pelee marsh, Lake Erie. Nest at 

 the edge of the water but on a solid foundation. Eggs, two. {W. 

 Saunders.) 



8. Yellow-billed Loon 



Gavia adamsii (Gray) Allen. 1897. 



Abundant at Great Slave lake. (Ross.) During the breeding 

 season this species abounds in Franklin and Liverpool bays on the 

 Arctic coast, where several examples were shot. (Macfarlane.) 

 One specimen taken at Comox, Vancouver island, by Mr. W. B. 

 Anderson ; seen also at Victoria by Mr. Fred. Foster. {Kermode.) 

 This fine species, the least known of the loons, is not a rare sum- 

 mer resident about the head of Kotzebue sound. (Nelson.) 

 Twelve specimens taken near Point Barrow. (Mcllkenny.) A 

 large loon, either this species or G. imber v/SiS killed and eaten by 

 natives at Cold bay and an immature specimen is in the National 

 Museum at Washington collected at Igushik, across the river from 

 Nushagak, Alaska, September ist, 1882. {Osgood.) One specimen 

 killed by Townsend on St. Paul island, Bering sea, August, 1885. 

 {Palmer.) St. Matthew island, Bering sea, 1891. Probably 

 breeding. (/. M. Macoun.) This species seems to prefer the 

 extreme northwesterly part of the continent and islands from 

 Liverpool bay on the east to the mouth of the -Yukon on the 

 west. 



Breeding Notes. — Selawik lake and Kunkuk river are the 

 places where it is claimed the greater number breed. The shore 

 of Norton sound is a breeding place for a few pairs, as is the low 



