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Podilymbus podiceps Pied-billed Grebe 
Rather scarce, but breeding in small numbers on all the large and 
some of the smaller lakes. 
Gavia immer Loon 
Common, breeding on some of the smaller lakelets and apparently 
coming to the larger ones only to feed. 
Gavia arctica Arctic Loon 
The writer examined a high plumaged specimen taken on Wharton 
lake by Prof. Rowan and A. D. Henderson, July 6, 1925. It is, of course, 
G” * a . pacifica. 
Larus argentatus Herring Gull 
A. D. Henderson has a skin of a juvenile gull, probably this species, 
taken on lac La Nonne. Several gulls seen in the autumn on lac La Nonne 
by Laing and Harrold were attributed to this species, but could not be 
certainly identified. 
Larus californicus California Gull 
Single gulls of large size were seen on lac La Nonne through the spring 
and summer. The only one taken, July 2, was a sub-adult non -breeder 
of this species. 
Larus brachyrhynchos Short-billed Gull 
One specimen, taken by A. D. Henderson August 15 on lac La Nonne, 
and now in our collection. It is a juvenile of the year and seems to be the 
only record for the species in Alberta away from the large lakes of the 
north where it breeds regularly. 
Larus franklini Franklin’s Gull 
Fair numbers seen on all the large and many of the smaller lakes. 
Nests intermittently in the marsh at the south end of lake Majeau. The 
year previous Henderson states there was a large colony there, but this 
season, though numbers congregated over the spot at times, it was not 
occupied for nesting. June 24 and 25 assistance was given Prof. Wm. 
Rowan and his associates in banding some 5,000 Franklin’s Gulls before 
they could fly, in an immense rookery at Beaverhill lake, southeast of 
Edmonton. Approximately 5,000 birds were banded at this time. 
Larus Philadelphia Bonaparte’s Gull 
This species was one of the interesting items of the locality. It nests 
in scattered pairs about many of the large and small lakes about Belvedere, 
northward to the Fort Assiniboine region and probably beyond. The 
nests are placed on the branches of spruce or tamarack trees adjoining lakes 
and are well-made structures of moss on a stick base and have a very close 
resemblance to magnified nests of the Olive-sided Flycatcher. The young 
seem to take to the open water of the nearby lake nearly as soon as hatched. 
For a full account of nesting in this district See Henderson, Auk, XLIII, 
1926, pages 288-294. The Museum is indebted to Mr. R. H. Rauch for a 
beautifully characteristic nest collected in situ near Fort Assiniboine, now 
made up as a habitat group on exhibition. 
