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three weeks in advance of the other waterfowl, almost without 

 exception. The nest is large, carefully rounded up, and built on 

 some jutting point or narrow shelf along the face of a cliff or 

 bluff ; in its construction, sea-ferns {Sertulandce) , grass, etc., are 

 used, together with a cement made largely of excrement. The 

 eggs are usually three in humber, sometimes four, and, compared 

 with the size of the bird, are exceedingly small. They are oval, 

 of a dirty whitish-gray, green and blue colour, but soon become 

 soiled, for although this bird's plumage is sleek and bright, yet it 

 is very slovenly and filthy about its nest. {Elliott.) 



Family XII. PELECANID^. Pelicans. 

 XLI. PELECANUS Linn^us. 1758. 

 125. American White Pelican. 



Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmel. 1788. 



Accidental in New Brunswick; one shot at Point du Chene and 

 another at Cape Spenser. (Chamberlain!) A fine specimen of 

 this species was taken two miles south of Manotick, Ont.,by John 

 Flann, jr. (/. F. Wkiteaves.) Mr. P. C. Jones shot a specimen on 

 the Bay of Quinte, about eight miles from Belleville, Ont. (W 

 Saunders.) Stragglers are occasionally taken on Lake Ontario 

 and others on Lake Erie, but there are no accounts of its breeding 

 in any part of Ontario. 



Found on all the large lakes throughout northern Manitoba and 

 Saskatchewan. According to Seton they formerly bred on Shoal 

 lake in Manitoba, but the settling of the country has caused them 

 to move farther north. The writer has found them on Lake Win- 

 nipegosis, Long lake, Old Wives lake, the Great Quill lakes and 

 Crane lake, where they were breeding in numbers. Further north 

 they breed in still greater numbers. 



First seen at Indian Head, Sask., April i8th, 1892; in May 

 they came in large flocks and went north to breed. As soon as 

 the breeding season is over they come back and feed in the larger 

 lakes in the district; the greater number of those that return are 

 males. They were breeding in numbers at Long lake, to the 

 northwest of Indian Head, in 1879, and a few on Lake Ste. Anne, 



