34 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



two eggs each, but five had as many as three. The nest was 

 usually a shallow depression in the beach. In one of them we 

 discovered an egg of the Black Brant. (Macfarlane.) 



In the summer of 1896 this species was found breeding by the 

 large lakes in northern Labrador. {Spreadborough) 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



One specimen taken off Resolution Island, Hudson Strait, in 

 1885 by Dr. Bell. 



There are 14 eggs of this species in our collection Two taken 

 at Disco, Greenland, six at Cape Prince of Wales, Hudson Strait ; 

 three from an island near Great Whale River, Hudson Bay, and 

 three from James Bay. 



42^. Point Barrow Glaucous Gull. Western Glaucous 

 GuU, 



Lotus barrovianus Ridgw. 1886. 



All the islands of Behring Sea and all its dreary coast-line are 

 familiar to this great gull. In summer it occurs from the Aleutian 

 Islands north to the farthest points reached by the hardy naviga- 

 tors in the adjoining Arctic ocean. Common in the Yukon delta. 

 {Nelson.) This gull is the earliest to arrive at St. Michael ; few 

 breed here, but on the Aleutian Islands it breeds in thousands ; 

 at Karluck on Kadiak Island it was in countless thousands in 

 August, 1881. {Turner.) Abundant at Point Barrow. {Murdoch.) 

 Abundant at Cape Lisburne, Arctic Sea. {Dr. Bean.) They do 

 not breed on the Prybiloff Islands, but in large numbers on Walrus 

 Island, about six miles from St. Paul Island, to which island 

 they come to feed on the dead carcases of seals, and from which 

 they carry food to their young on Walrus Island. It is reported 

 that they destroy the young seal pups by picking out their eyes. 

 (/. M. Macoun.) 



Breeding Notes. — This bird breeds on Walrus Island where 

 there are no foxes. It builds neat nests of sea-ferns and dry 

 grass placed among the turfy tussocks on the centre of the 

 island. It lays early in June three large eggs of a spherically 

 oval shape, which have a dark grayish-brown ground with irre- 

 gular patches of darker brown-black. {Elliott.) 



This gull nests in a tussock of grass that may grow in the mid- 

 dle of a pond in the lowlands, otherwise foxes might disturb it. 

 The nest is built oi- grass and other material. The eggs are 



