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as soon as open water appeared and full-grown young were common 
there the first days of September. A large extension of the known 
range was made in 1900 when eggs were taken on June 15, at Wey- 
precht Island, latitude 79°, on the east coast of Ellesmere Island 
(Thayer), and on July 1 a specimen was taken a few miles farther 
south, at Alexander Haven (Thayer) . 
In winter the species comes south along the Atlantic coast as far 
as Long Island, near Rockaway Beach, March 8, 1898 (Braislin); 
• BREEDING 
+ WINTERING 
■if OCCURRENCE IN WINTER 
Fig. 11.— Kumlien's gull (Larus kumlieni). 
Stamford, Conn., February 16, 1894 (Dwight); Plymouth, Mass., 
January 5, 1888 (Dwight); Moon Island, Boston Harbor, Mass., 
February 22, 1905 (Allen); Tadousac, Quebec, probably in the spring 
of 1901 (Dwight); near Grand Manan, New Brunswick, about Janu- 
ary 21, 1883 (Merrill); one in the Bay of Fundy, about November 1, 
1881 (Brewster); and one on Prince Edward Island, October 7, 1905 
(Mac Swain). Inland, one was taken at the mouth of the Mohawk 
River, N. Y., January 28, 1884 (Brewster). 
