734 MICHIGAN BIRD LIVE. 
the ground and luys three or four eggs, which are pale buff, spotted with 
various shades of brown and gray, and average 2.13 by 1.53 inches. 
TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION, 
Eastern form, C. s. semipalmatus (for comparison). 
“Primaries blackish, with nearly the basal half white, producing a very conspicuous 
patch on the spread wing. Summer adult: Above brownish gray, irregularly varied 
with dusky; lower parts white, tinged with grayish on foreneck and buff along sides, the 
former with chest streaked or spotted with dusky, the latter barred with the same. Winter 
plumage: Above plain ash-gray; beneath immaculate white, the foreneck shaded with 
grayish. Young: Above brownish gray, the feathers margined with buff or pale ochra- 
ceous; sides much tinged with the same, and finely mottled transversely with grayish. 
Length 15 to 17 inches; wing 7.50 to 9; culmen 1.90 to 2.60; tarsus 1.95 to 2.85” (Ridgway). 
Western form, C. s. inornatus. Male and female, breeding plumage:— 
“Differing from §. semipalmatus in being larger, with a longer, slenderer bill; the dark 
markings above fewer, finer, and fainter, on a much paler (grayish-drab) ground; those 
beneath duller, more confused or broken, and bordered by pinkish-salmon, which often 
spreads over or suffuses the entire underparts, excepting the abdomen. Middle tail- 
feathers either quite immaculate or very faintly barred. Measurements: Wing, 7.88 
to 8.26 inch.; tail, 3.10—3.50; tarsus, 2.45—2.95; culmen, 2.28—2.70” (Brewster, 
Auk, IV, 1887, 145-146). 
ADDITIONAL NOTES ON A FEW SPECIES. 
1. Holbcells Grebe. Colymbus holbecelli. 
Mr. A. G. Baumgartel, of Grand Rapids, informs us that he mounted 
«specimen for the museum of Hope College, Holland, Mich., which was 
killed in that vicinity in 1894. 
6. Brunnich’s Murre. Uria lomvia lomvia. 
A specimen was shot near Kalamazoo on Thanksgiving Day, 1907, 
and mounted by EK. H. Crane of that city, who has the specimen. 
7. Little Auk. Alle alle. 
A Lake Michigan record of this interesting bird is furnished by a 
specimen killed January 11, 1908, along the ice fringe of Lake Michigan 
near Port Washington, Wis., and now preserved in the Public Museum 
of the City of Milwaukee. It appeared to be an adult in ordinary winter 
plumage (Henry L. Ward, Bull. Wis. Nat. Hist. Soc., VI, April 1908). 
15. Ring-billed Gull. Larus delawarensis. 
Mr. W. E. Saunders of London, Ont., found this species nesting in large 
numbers on an island off the Canadian shore of Lake Huron, near the 
Bruce Peninsula, in June 1905; again, in 1906, he visited another island, 
about fifty miles southwest of the one just mentioned, and found the 
Ring-bills nesting there in equal numbers (Wilson Bulletin No. 59, June, 
1907, 73-74). : 
16. Franklin’s Gull. Larus franklini. 
Mr. A. G. Baumgartel, of Grand Rapids, writes us that he mounted 
a specimen of this gull for a farmer, who took it on the ‘Big Marsh,” 
