. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. - 27. 3S, Lohg-Tailed Jaeger. ones of S. parasiticus. They range from to loBg, and from to broad. Mr. Nelson describes, a nest of this species which was in a cup-shaped depression in a mossy knoll where lay two dark greenish eggs with an abundance of spots. 39. IVORY GULL. Gavia alba (Gunn.) Geog. Dist—Arctic Seas, south in winter on the Atlantic coast of North America to Labrador and New Foundland, casually to New Brunswick, and on the Pacific side to Bering A bird that is resident in the A
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. - 27. 3S, Lohg-Tailed Jaeger. ones of S. parasiticus. They range from to loBg, and from to broad. Mr. Nelson describes, a nest of this species which was in a cup-shaped depression in a mossy knoll where lay two dark greenish eggs with an abundance of spots. 39. IVORY GULL. Gavia alba (Gunn.) Geog. Dist—Arctic Seas, south in winter on the Atlantic coast of North America to Labrador and New Foundland, casually to New Brunswick, and on the Pacific side to Bering A bird that is resident in the Arctic regions of both hemispheres, only occasion- ally visiting the more temperate zones. It is said to breed the farthest north of all the gulls. Specimens of this species were seen on several occasions by the natural- ist of the Jeannette, Mr. R. L. Newcomb, during his long imprisonment in the icy sea to the west of our northern coast. It was noted as a rare visitor-at Point Barrow by Murdoch, and also by various expeditions among the network of channels north of British America. Noted for its ravenous appetite, gorging itself with the flesh of the seal and the blubber of the whale. They have the habit of watching about seal- holes in the ice, waiting for the seal, whose excrement the gull devours. On the islands and along the coasts of Spitzbergen it breeds sparingly; in like places on the coast of Northern. Siberia it is abundant. The bird Is a resident of Greenland, and the breeding season there begins about the middle of June. The nest is built on some inaccessible rock or cliff; it is made of dry grass and lined with rooss and a ' few feathers, forming quite a hollow. An egg is described as oblong-oval in shape, with a ground color of light yellowish-olive with small blotches of dark brown scattered over the surface. These are intermingled with more obscure brown and cloudings of lilac. Size long by broad. 40. KITTIWAKE. Rlssa tridactyla (Linn.) Geog. Dist.
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