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Homer (Chapman); Montague Island (Grinnell); Yakutat (Black- 
welder); and Glacier Bay (Fisher). Inland it breeds south to Lake 
Marsh (Bishop) ; Hot Springs and Pike River, Atlin, British Columbia 
(Kermode) ; and is a common breeder in the Mackenzie Valley south 
to the lower Slave River (Preble) and to the Chariot River on Lake 
Athabaska (Harper). 
Winter range — This gull winters on the Pacific coast from Van- 
couver Island (Kermode) to extreme southern California at San Diego 
© BREEDING 
O OCCURRENCE IN SUMMER 
+ WINTERING 
■§■ OCCURRENCE IN WINTER 
Fig. 23.— Short-billed gull (Larus brachyrhynchus). 
(Henshaw), and occasionally as far north as Sitka, Alaska, where it 
was taken in December 1865, and January, 1866 (specimens in U. S. 
National Museum). 
There are three records of extensive wanderings: One was taken 
near Quebec City, Canada (Dionne); one on the Kuril Islands in 
February (Saunders), and a specimen now in the collection of the 
Biological Survey was taken August 28, 1893, on Lake Fork, in the 
Wind River Mountains, Wyo., at 10,000 feet altitude (Bailey). 
