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is not known to breed anywhere in Greenland nor on the islands north 
of Europe. It has wandered once to Jan Mayen (Schalow) , to Fred- 
erickshaab, Greenland (Walker), and to a few other places on the 
west coast of Greenland (Schalow). In northwestern North America 
there seems to be no sure breeding record north of near Mount McKin- 
ley (Sheldon), and the middle Yukon (Dall). 
The breeding range extends south to Babine Lake, British Col- 
umbia; Shoal Lake, Manitoba; Mille Lacs, Minn. (Roberts); the 
islands in Lake Michigan at the mouth of Green Bay (Van Winkle) ; 
the Sisters and Strawberry Island in Green Bay, Wis. (Palmer) ; Little 
Charity Island, Saginaw Bay, Mich. (Wood and Gaige); the lakes of 
southern Ontario (Clarke) ; near Wilmurt, N. Y. (eggs in JJ. • S. 
Fig. 19.— Herring gull (Larus argentatus), adult in winter plumage. 
National Museum); Four Brothers, Lake Champlain (Jordan); on 
the outer islands of the Maine coast west to No Mans Land Island in 
Penobscot Bay (Knight); and in Nova Scotia south to Kentville 
(Bishop). 
In Europe the species breeds east to the White Sea and south to 
northern France (Saunders). 
Winter range. — A few herring gulls sometimes remain in the Gulf 
of St. Lawrence all through the winter, as they did at North River, 
Prince Edward Island, the winter of 1888-89 (Bain), and at this 
season they are abundant on the Maine coast and southward. In 
the interior they are common on all the Great Lakes until the ice 
forms ; many remain through the winter on Lake Erie, and some even 
on Lake Superior. On the Pacific coast the species winters north to 
northern Washington. 
