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Range (North Atlantic breeds in North)

North Atlantic; breeds in North America from the Bay of Fundy northward; migrates southward in winter regularly to the Great Lakes and Virginia, and less frequently to South Carolina.

Long Island, common W. V., Sept. to Apl.

Nest, of grasses, seaweed, etc., on the ground. Eggs, two to three, claycolor, brownish ashy or buffy, rather evenly spotted with chocolate, 3.00 x 2.15. A more northern species than the Herring Gull. Mr. Brewster, who observed it in numbers in the island of Anticosti in July, writes: "The Black-backs are exceedingly noisy birds, especially when their young are in danger, as well as toward evening.

I identified four distinct cries: a braying ha-ha-ha, a deep keow, keow, a short barking note, and a long-drawn groan, very loud and decidedly impressive.... At all times of the year, during the breeding season as well as in winter, it is by far the wariest bird that I have ever met." The SIBERIAN GULL (50. Larus affinis)-a large Gull inhabiting northern Asia-is sometimes found in Greenland. 51a. Larus argentatus smithsonianus Coues. AMERICAN HER-