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Alberta, 1898. {Spreadborough.) North to Big island on the 

 Mackenzie river. {Ross.) An American white pelican was taken 

 by an Eskimo in June or July, 1900, on the shores of Liverpool 

 bay, lat. 70° W., long. 128°, on the shores of the Arctic sea. 

 It is now in my collection. (/. H. Fleming.) Not common in 

 British Columbia. One specimen taken at Shuswap lake, Octo- 

 ber, 1890, by Col. Forester. Said to breed in the Chilcotin coun- 

 try. {Fannin.) Mr. James McEvoy, of the Geological Survey, 

 saw one on Kamloops lake in October, 1894. Mr. Khoads saw a 

 specimen which had been taken on Lake Okanagan, and Dr. 

 Dawson saw numbers in lakes in the Chilcotin country in June, 

 1878. These are the only records we have of its occurrence in 

 British Columbia. 



Breeding Notes. — Breeding on Lake Manitoba and Shoal lake, 

 Manitoba, and on Buffalo lake, Alberta. {Dippie.) On June i8th, 

 1894, I found a colony of these birds nesting on a sandy island in 

 Shoal lake, Manitoba. Nest, a hollow in the gravel, containing 

 two eggs each. Dr. Shufeldt in his monograph on the pelican, 

 states the bird lays but one egg, but this is an error as far as my 

 observation goes. {Raine.) Richardson says they deposit their 

 eggs on small rocky islands, and this accords with our own know- 

 ledge as in the cases mentioned above they were breeding on 

 islands. Their nests are merely depressions in the gravel or sand, 

 generally lined with an algoid matting that is often found blown 

 up on the shore. Eggs, one to three, very much like those of the 

 Canada goose, but the surface of the shell is rougher. 



126. Brown Pelican. 



Pelecanus fuscus Linn. 1766. 



On the 31st May, 1885, a brown pelican was seen to alight on a 

 salt-water marsh at River John, Pictou co., Nova Scotia, where it 

 was approached without much difficulty and killed. Upon ex- 

 amination the body was found to be emaciated and the pouch 

 entirely empty. This specimen is now in the museum at Pictou 

 academy. On the first of June, 1893, ^'^ adult male of the same 

 species was shot on Pictou island by Mr. J.W. Hogg. A third 

 specimen vas shot by the same gentleman on May 15th, 1895 at 

 the east end of Pictou island. The latest record we have for this 



