Notes on Birds of Grand Ban' 
S. L.N#w«omt>. - 13 c 
Sty. 9. (/(: 
Saw two Gray Gulls, which I think were Laras marinas. 
Bull N.O.O. 4 , April, 187», p.128 
Tji-j, within Ten Miles of Point 
B d eMoS.Can, Comeau&Mernam 
132. Larus marinus. Great Black-backed Gull. —Breeds, and is 
tolerably common. It is absent only in January and February. July 17, 
1882, I found one of their nests on Great Baule, one of the Seven Islands. 
It consisted of a little coarse grass placed in a slight depression in the 
rock, and was lined with a sort of pad, about four inches in diameter, of 
beautiful soft down, on which reposed a single egg. The egg had been 
incubated, but failed to hatch. ' r> 041 
■Rail N.O.O, 7,Oot, 1882 . 
.Birds, Haute Island, Bay of Fundy, July 
26,1887. W.L.Bishop,Kentville,N.S. 
Black-backed Gull, Larus marinus ; common. 
O.&O. XII. Sept. 1887 p.145 
Breeding Dates of Birds in Kings 
County,N.S. WatsonL.Bishop. 
Great Black-backed Gull (Lams marinus). 
May 22, four sets were taken, May 25, three 
sets. These were collected on rocks and small 
islands in the Gaspereaux Lake, where quite a 
number of these birds breed every year. It is 
about eighteen miles from the salt water. 
(Minas Basin). I don’t remember ever having 
seen a Herring Gull on these lakes. 
G &0. XIII. Mar. 1888 p 
Birds of Hagdalen islands. 
Dr. L.B.Biohop. 
9 . Larus marinus. Great Black-backed Gull. —A flock of between 
twenty and thirty in the adult plumage was observed on a sand bar on the 
West Point of Amherst Island, July 9 . No evidence of the breeding of 
this species could be obtained. 
Auk, " 71 . April, 1889. p. 145 
The only bird seen in St. John’s harbor 
from the 1 st to the 10 th of March was a 
solitary Black-backed Gull (Larus mari¬ 
nus ), here called “Saddle-back;” but dur¬ 
ing part of this time the harbor was cov¬ 
ered with ice. 
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O.&O. Vlll. June. 1883 .p.Vj. 
