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Sterna caspia Pallas. Caspian Tern. 



A specimen procured at Moose Factory b};- J. McKenzie is recorded 

 by Turner," and Nutting records one taken near Grand Rapids, Sas- 

 katchewan, in the summer of 1891.* As the species occurs in the 

 interior as far as Great Sla\re Lake, it is probable that it regularly 

 reaches southern Keewatin. 



Sterna hirundo Linn. Common Tern. 



Common on Lake Winnipeg June 16 to 17, and seen on nearly all 

 the lakes on our route to Hudson Bay. One was collected near Rob- 

 inson Portage June 28. It may occur on Hudson Bay north to the 

 Barren Grounds, in association with the Arctic tern, but was not 

 identified with certainty this far north. It was recorded from Hudson 

 Bay by Andrew Murray. '^^ 



Sterna paradissea Briinn. Arctic Tern. 



Common on Hudson Bay. A specimen was collected 50 miles north 

 of York Factory July 19, and the species was seen dailj' at Fort 

 Churchill. Young just able to fly were observed on the meadows 

 bordering Button Bay Julj' 31, and still smaller young on a sandy 

 islet a few miles farther north August 1. When I started south from 

 near Cape Eskimo August 13, the species had apparently commenced 

 to migrate, and old and young were common on the Bay until Ave 

 reached York Factory August 26. The catalogue of birds in the U. S. 

 National Museum collection contains the record of an Arctic tern 

 collected at Moose Factory in 1881. 



Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis (Gmel.). Black Tern. 



Abundant on the marshes at the mouth of Red River June 15. Many 

 were seen June 24 on a marsh near Hairy Lake and many more June 

 27 at the north end of Robinson Portage, where two specimens were 

 collected. 



Murray recorded the species from Severn House and Moose Factory.'^ 



Fulmarus glacialis (Linn.). Fulmar. 



Stated by James Clark Ross to be peculiarly numerous in Hudson 

 Bay, Davis Strait, and BaiEn Bay.*^ 



Phalacrocorax dilophus (Swain.). Double-crested Cormorant. 



A single immature bird was taken near Pine Lake September 12. 

 It was swimming about in some rapids and was easily approached. 



aProc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, p. 245, 1885. 

 b Nat. Hist. Bull. Univ. Iowa, II, p. 252, 1893. 

 ■•Edin. New Phil. Joura. (newser.), IX, p. 231, 1859. 

 <i Appendix to Ross's Second Voyage, p. sxxviii, 1835. 



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