OcTOBEK,1902,] BIRDS OF KE.EWATIN. 77 



plainly represent this species. He gives thie length of the bill to the 

 angle as 3 inches, and the color of the hinder part of head and neck as 

 light ash." Specimens from Winter Island, Melville Peninsula, and 

 from Repulse Bay are recorded in the British Museum Catalogue. 



Gavia lumme (Gunn.). Eed-throated Loon. 



First seen July ^1 at Fort Churchill, where it was fairly common. 

 It was abundant August 4- to 13 on the shallow ponds on the Barren 

 Grounds below Cape Eskimo, where the old birds were feeding young 

 that were still unable to fly. An adult male and a young one in the 

 dusky downy plumage were collected 60 miles below Cape Eskimo 

 August i. At our camp 25 miles south of Cape Eskimo the sijecies was 

 more abundant than G. pcwificu, and fully as noisy. While returning 

 we saw two and shot one on Knee Lake September 9. 



Cepphus mandti (Licht.). Mandt Guillemot. 



Two were seen on Hudson Bay about 50 miles south of Cape Eskimo 

 August 3. One of these sat motionless on the water while the boat 

 passed by within a few feet. On August 19 I saw one on Button Bay 

 near Fort Churchill. 



Two specimens from Melville Peninsula are recorded in the British 

 Museum Catalogue. 



Andrew Murray records the black guillemot ( ( '. gryUe) from Severn 

 House,* and Richardson states that it was very numerous off Melville 

 Peninsula.'' In his narrative Dr. Rae speaks of finding it nesting on 

 an island off Knaps River, Hudson Baj^'' These records of (jrtjUe 

 probably refer to the present form. 



TJria troile (Linn.).. Murre. 



Richardson describes a specimen collected at York Factorv, Hudson 

 Bay.« 



Uria lomvia (Linn.). Briinnich ]Murre. 



Swainson and Richardson say that this species frequents Hudson 

 Bay.-^ A specimen from Hudson Bay, received from the Hudson's Bay 

 Company, is recorded in the British Museum Catalogue. Though I 

 have been unable to find an j^ other record , there seems to be no reason 

 that this murre should not occur there regularlJ^ ■ The species is 

 recorded by Ross from Port Bowen, Prince Regent Inlet, where the 

 birds arrived early in Junes' 



osNat. Hist., Ill, pi. 146, 1750. 



SEdin. New Phil. Journ. (new ser.), IX, p. 231, 1859. 



"-Appendix to Parry's Second Voyage, p. 377, 1825 (1827). 



i Narrative of an Expedition to the Shores of the Arctic Sea, p. 22, 1850. 



« Fauna Boreali- Americana, II, p. 477, 1831. 



/Ibid., p. 477, 1831. 



» Parry's Third Voyage, Appendix, p. 107, 1826. 



