Short-billed Gull--Larus canus Linnaeus.

Small numbers visited Puntchesakut Lake during the spring mi-
gration and, like the herring gull, associated with diving ducks
and grebes on the centre of the lake. However, these little gulls -
were quite fearless and I sometimes paddled close to them. The dates
seen and numbers counted are: May 6, 10; May 7 (a.m.}, 4, (p.m.) 243
May 11, (noon) 7, (4:30 p.m.) 24. The flock of 24 left the lake that
evening and none was subsequently seen there.

The only other record is for an adult at Seymour Lake, July 13.
This bird was standing on a 'dead head' near the centre of the lake
and I paddled within a few yards before it flew.

Bonaparte Gull--Larus philadelphia (Ord).

A flock of 50+ at Dragon Lake, May 6, a single bird at Tiltza-
rone Lake, May 17, another at Puntchesakut Lake, May 24, and a flock
flying over the same lake on the night of May 29, were considered to
be transients.

At Swamp Lake, July 5, two pairs observed in flight, and a
flock of eight seen mobbing a bald eagle, were thought to represent
the total of a nesting population at that place. Because of various
difficulties it was not practicable to conduct a search for nest
at that time. However, Mr. Frank Allen, who lives not far from the
lake, told me that the gulls were there each summer. He said also
that at times, when walking along the shore, the gulls had swooped
down at him from spruce trees where they probably had nests. In
May, 1944, Game Warden Muirhead had a similar experience beside a
pond near Burbidge Lake which is 20 miles east of Telkwa. This
would indicate nesting at that place.

Other summer records are: four adults at Seymour Lake, July
13; four adults at Maclure Lake, July 15; two adults and eight
flying young seen several times, both in flight and on the water,
at Shafer Lake between August 5 and August 9. Two of the four
at Maclure Lake, identified as adults, had white heads--either
because of an early moult, or because the plumage of the previous
winter had been retained. Instances of the latter condition have
been observed in May. These four birds cruised along shore and
were watched at close range a number of times.

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