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Breeding Notes. — On an island in Crane lake, Saskatchewan, 

 June gth, 1894, I observed twenty-seven nests. The nests, built 

 with sticks and weeds, were from six inches to a foot in height. 

 Only nine of the nests contained eggs, and these had but one each. 

 A few days later (June 20th) all the nests had from one to four 

 eggs in them, and two additional nests had been built. {Spfead- 

 borough.) Manitoba and Shoal lakes, Manitoba, and in Buffalo 

 lake, Alberta. (Dippie.) Breeds in all suitable but retired places 

 about Prince Albert, Sask. {Goubeaux.) Big Stick lake, Sask. 

 {Bishop.) On June 8th, 1894 I found this bird nesting on islands 

 in Shoal lake, Manitoba. Nest of sticks and weeds containing 

 from four to five eggs. {Raine.) 



1206. White-crested Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax dilophus cincinatus (Brandt) Ridgw. 1880. 



This bird is a visitor at St. Michael, Alaska, by June loth. It 

 does not oc'cur in great numbers; only a few breed there. At 

 Besborough island, some 40 miles north of St. Michael, this bird 

 breeds in abundance on the walls of that inaccessible island. 

 (Turner?) From Race rocks to Alaska, including Howe sourfd 

 and Burrard inlet and both coasts of Vancouver island; it occa- 

 sionally enters the mouth of the Fraser river, and is tolerably 

 common. {Fannin?) Common on both coasts of Vancouver island. 

 {Spreadborough. ) 



122. Brandt Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax penicillatus (Brandt) Heerm. 1854. 



Two specimens of this species were killed off Beacon Hill, Vic- 

 toria, Vancouver island, April igth, 1897, by Mr. D. E. Campbell 

 and presented to the museum. {Fannin?) 



123. Pelagic Cormorant. 



Phalacrocorax pelagicus Pall. 1826. 

 This cormorant was found abundantly on the Aleutian islands in 

 May, 1877, and in the autumn of 1881. {Nelson.) In some locali- 

 ties of the Aleutian islands this form is extremely numerous; it 

 breeds on all the principal islands. Along these islands the bird 

 is a constant resident, apparently more numerous in winter than 

 in summer. {Turner.) 



