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species, I had it thoroughly examined, and it proved to be a male 

 Laughing Gull. This, I believe, is the first record of this bird in 

 Ontario. (William Cross.) Coast of Nova Scotia. {A.O.U.List.) 



MUSEUM SPECIMEN. 



One bought with Holman collection in 1885. 



59. Franklin's Rosy Gull. 



Larus franklifdi Svsr. & Rich. 1831. 



Accidental on Hamilton Bay, Ont., two specimens shot, one in 

 1865, the other later. (Mcllwraith) Although no specimens of 

 this species were taken, I am inclined to believe that they breed 

 in the Anderson River district. {Macfarlane.) This is a very 

 common gull in the interior of the Northwest Territories, where 

 it frequents the shores of the larger lakes. It is generally seen 

 in flocks and is very noisy. It breeds in marshy places. (Richard- 

 son.) Shot by Spreadborough at Indian Head, Assa., on May 

 20th with stomachs full of grasshoppers, showing they had come 

 from far to the south. They are very abundant throughout the 

 marshy parts of Manitoba during summer, breeding in nearly all 

 large marshes. In Assiniboia they are also abundant and breed 

 in great numbers as far west as Cypress Lake, where there are 

 marshes. Later in the season they gather in great numbers 

 around the larger salt lakes, and mix with the Ring-bill and 

 Herring Gulls. 



After they arrive in Manitoba they follow the farmers in the 

 fields and gather ' cut-worms ' and other larvae turned up by the 

 plough. {Percy Selwyn.) 



Breeding Notes. — This species, unlike the Herring Gull and 

 the Ring-bill, breeds in communities in marshes. Hundreds of 

 nests were found June 13th, 1894, in a marshy lake about three 

 miles southeast of Crane Lake ; incubation was far advanced. 

 The nests were very bulky, made of reeds placed on the marsh, 

 and floating in about two and a half feet of water. Eggs in each 

 case, three. (Spreadborough.) 



Breeds abundantly in the marshes at the south end of Lake 

 Manitoba. (Raine. 



museum specimens. 



Five specimens taken at Indian Head, Assa., in June, i892,and 

 at Crane Lake in June, 1894, by Spreadborough. 



