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numbers. Farther north they breed in still greater numbers, 

 rst seen at Indian Head, Assa., April i8th, 1892 ; in May they 

 ne in large flocks and went north to breed. As soon as the 

 ceding season is over they come back and feed in the larger 

 :es in the district ; the greater number of those that return are 

 lies. They were breeding in numbers at Long Lake, to the 

 rthwest of Indian Head, in 1879, and a few on Lake Ste. Anne, 

 berta, 1898. {Spreadborough.) North to Big Island on the 

 ickenzie River. (Ross.) Not common in British Columbia. 

 le specimen taken at Shuswap Lake, October, 1890, by Col. 

 Tester. Said to breed in the Chilcotin country. (Fanmn.) Mr. 

 nes McEvoy, of the Geological Survey, saw one on Kamloops 

 ke in October, 1894, and Dr. Dawson saw numbers in lakes in 

 i Chilcotin country in June. 1878. These are the only records 

 have of its occurrence in British Columbia. 



Breeding Notes. — ^Breeding on Lake Manitoba and Shoal 

 ke, Manitoba, and on Buffalo Lake, Alberta. {Dippie.) On 

 le 1 8th, 1894, 1 found a colony of these birds nesting on a sandy 

 ind in Shoal Lake, Manitoba. Nest, a hollow in the gravel, 

 ntaining two eggs each. Dr. Shufeldt in his monograph on the 

 lican, states the bird lays but one g^^, but this is an error as 

 ■ as my observation goes. {Raine.') Richardson says they 

 posit their eggs on small rocky islands, and this accords with 

 r own knowledge as in the cases mentioned above they were 

 ceding on islands. Their nests are merely depressions in the 

 ivel or sand, generally lined with an algoid matting that is 

 :en found blown up on the shore. Eggs, one to three, very 

 ich like that of the Canada Goose, but the surface of the shell 

 rougher. 



MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 



Dne specimen taken on Lake Winnipeg, July, 1884, by Mr. 

 omas Weston. Four eggs of this species taken on a small 

 ind at the western end of Lake Winnipegoosis, Manitoba, by 

 -.J. B. Tyrrell, in June, 1889. 



3. Brown Pelican. 



Pelecanus fuscus Linn. 1766. 



3n the 3[st May, 1885, a Brown Pelican was seen to alight on 

 alt-water marsh at River John, Pictou Co., Nova Scotia, where 



