Distribution and migration of North American gulls and their allies . NORTH AMERICAN GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES. 31 breeds on Iceland and south along the western coast of Europe toabout latitude 50°. The principal summer home seems to be theLabrador coast, where it is an abundant breeder from Cape Chidley,Hudson Strait (Low), along the whole coast and south to Newfound-. Fig. 13.—Great black-backed gull (Larus marinus). land (Arnold), Anticosti Island (Brewster), Godbout, Quebec (Co-meau), Pictou, Nova Scotia (Hickman), Halifax, Nova Scotia (Jones),and Kentville, Nova Scotia (Tufts). A few nonbree
Distribution and migration of North American gulls and their allies . NORTH AMERICAN GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES. 31 breeds on Iceland and south along the western coast of Europe toabout latitude 50°. The principal summer home seems to be theLabrador coast, where it is an abundant breeder from Cape Chidley,Hudson Strait (Low), along the whole coast and south to Newfound-. Fig. 13.—Great black-backed gull (Larus marinus). land (Arnold), Anticosti Island (Brewster), Godbout, Quebec (Co-meau), Pictou, Nova Scotia (Hickman), Halifax, Nova Scotia (Jones),and Kentville, Nova Scotia (Tufts). A few nonbreeders remain allsummer on the Maine coast (Knight). 32 BULLETIN 292, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Winter range.—A few of these gulls winter as far north as southernGreenland (Hagerup), but the bulk are found along the United Statescoast from Maine to New Jersey. Some remained at North River,Prince Edward Island, all of the winter of 1888-89 (Bain), but usuallythey are forced away by the ice. A few visit the Great Lakes inwinter. The European birds winter on inland waters and occuralong the coast south to the Canaries; they also stray rarely southto Egypt. The winter of 1894-95 one wandered to St. Augustine,Fla. (Cory), and the species has been taken twice on Bermuda, De-cember, 1851, and December 27, 1862 (Reid). It was noted atColumbus, Ohio, December
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