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and personal observation. Oavia ardicus and 0. lumme are, 

 however, among the referred to omissions in Professor 

 Macoun's " Catalogue of Canadian Birds." 



There are but three specimens and four eggs in the 

 Dominion Collection at Ottawa! 



36. PoMAEiNE Jaegee — Stevcorarius pomarinus 

 (Temminck). 



An example of this bird was shot at Fort Resolution, 

 Great Slave Lake, in the spring of 1887, and Professor 

 Macoun states that it is now on hand in the Museum of the 

 Dominion of Canada, at Ottawa, Ontario. Although we 

 obtained four skins of this jaeger at Fort Anderson, includ- 

 ing one shot on 11th July, 1865, in Franklin Bay, we did 

 not succeed in becoming acquainted with its eggs. Mr. Ross 

 found it very rare on Great Slave Lake. There are no eggs, 

 and but the referred to skin, procured by me in 1887 at 

 Great Slave Lake, in the Ottawa Museum ! 



37. Paeasitic Jaegee — Stevcorarius parasiticus (Linn.). 



A bird of this species was received by Mr. James Flett, 

 of Fort Resolution, early in June, 1885. He did not think 

 it bred there ; hut as published in the " Proceedings of the 

 United States National Museum," Vol. XIV, for 1891, we 

 observed a large numlber of this jaeger, and also found 

 several nests thereof on each of our four collecting expedi- 

 tions (1862-1865), between Fort Anderson and Franklin 

 Bay. A few specimens were also obtained from the Eskimos 

 of the lower Anderson River. 



Under this heading the following appeared in the afore- 

 said paper : " There is, of course, no darkness for several 

 months in summer within the before-defined Anderson sec- 

 tion of the Arctic regions, while in June the sun at midnight 

 is several degrees above the horizon. During the period, 



