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Breeding Notes. — The native who brought me the specimen 

 mentioned above told me the bird laid a single pure white egg. 

 The nest is placed amongst the roots of the large tussocks of 

 grass on the edges of bluff and cliff ledges. (Turner.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One young bird collected by Dr. G. M. Dawson, Queen Char- 

 lotte Sound, B. C, September, 1885. 



XIII. CEPPHUS Pallas. 1769. 

 a"? Black Guillemot. 



Cepphm grylle {'Liviia.') 'Q'R^TiU. 1831. 



This species is common along the Atlantic coast from the Bay 

 of Fundy (Chamberlain ; Downs) northward to Newfoundland 

 {Reeks), and very numerous on both coasts of Greenland, and 

 said to remain longer than any other bird. Plentiful on Melville 

 Peninsula, but not so common in the Polar Sea. {Arct. Man.) 

 Generally distributed, but nowhere breeding in numbers in the 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence. {Brewster.) Common in Hudson Strait ; 

 also east and south shores of Labrador. {Packard.) Breads 

 abundantly in scattered colonies on most of the Magdalen 

 Islands. {Bishop.) Seen throughout the year on Prince of Wales 

 Sound, Hudson Strait. {Payn£.) . Common at Quebec. {Dionne.) 

 One shot in Burlington Bay, Hamilton, Ontario, many years ago. 

 {Mcllwraith.) A specimen was shot at Toronto, Ont„ about 1885 ; 

 it is now in Mr. John Maughan's collection. (/. H. Fleming.) 



Breeding Notes. — A large series of eggs of this bird was 

 collected for me by Mr. Dicks on Pig Island, Coast of Labrador, 

 June 20th, 1895. Another large series was collected for me in 

 Ungava Bay, Labrador, on July 9th, 1896. This bird lays two 

 eggs in crevices of sea cliffs. I have also eggs in my collection 

 collected on Grand Manan, New Brunswick. (Raine.) This is a 

 common species in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, breeding in suitable 

 localities as far west as the mouth of the Saguenay. Numbers of 

 them breed on the Magdalen Islands as well as near Tignish, at 

 the west point of Prince Edward Island. On the 23rd and 24th 

 June, 1897, we found a number of their eggs in the cliffs of Bryon 

 Island. The eggs were mostly fresh, or only incubated a few 

 days at that date. Each bird lays two eggs in a crevice of the 



