. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. NORTH AMERICAN" GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES. 37 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 La


. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. NORTH AMERICAN" GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES. 37 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 U. 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 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washingto


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