Distribution and migration of North American gulls and their allies . lands to Melville Island (Parry), Wellington Channel (McCormick),and King Oscar Land (Sverdrup); these are in latitude about 75°,but thence eastward the breeding range turns south, and the species NORTH AMERICAN GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES. 37 is not known to breed anywhere in Greenland nor on the islands northof Europe. It has wandered once to Jan Mayen (Schalow), to Fred-erickshaab, Greenland (Walker), and to a few other places on thewest coast of Greenland (Schalow). In northwestern North Americathere seems to be no sure breed
Distribution and migration of North American gulls and their allies . lands to Melville Island (Parry), Wellington Channel (McCormick),and King Oscar Land (Sverdrup); these are in latitude about 75°,but thence eastward the breeding range turns south, and the species NORTH AMERICAN GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES. 37 is not known to breed anywhere in Greenland nor on the islands northof Europe. It has wandered once to Jan Mayen (Schalow), to Fred-erickshaab, Greenland (Walker), and to a few other places on thewest coast of Greenland (Schalow). In northwestern North Americathere 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); theislands in Lake Michigan at the mouth of Green Bay (Van Winkle) ;the Sisters and Strawberry Island in Green Bay, Wis. (Palmer); LittleCharity Island, Saginaw Bay, Mich. (Wood and Gaige); the lakes ofsouthern Ontario (Clarke); near Wilmurt, N. Y. (eggs in JJ. • Fig. 19.—Herring gull (Larus argentatus), adult in winter plumage. National Museum); Four Brothers, Lake Champlain (Jordan); onthe outer islands of the Maine coast west to No Mans Land Island inPenobscot Bay (Knight); and in Nova Scotia south to Kentville(Bishop). In Europe the species breeds east to the White Sea and south tonorthern France (Saunders). Winter range.—A few herring gulls sometimes remain in the Gulfof St. Lawrence all through the winter, as they did at North River,Prince Edward Island, the winter of 1888-89 (Bain), and at thisseason they are abundant on the Maine coast and southward. Inthe interior they are common on all the Great Lakes until the iceforms; many remain through the winter on Lake Erie, and some evenon Lake Superior. On the Pacific coast the species winters north tonorthern Washington. 38 BULLETIN 292, U. S. DEPAETMEXI OF AGRICULTURE. It ranges commonly in winter to the Gulf coast f
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