A. O. U. No. 58
Set Mark 1160
3

OOLOGICAL COLLECTION
OF
ROY QUILLIN

Private No. 1160
Eggs in Set 3

Name { Scientific Larus atricilla
Common Laughing Gull

Locality Lydia Anne Island, 6 miles off Aransas Pass, Texas

Date May 20th, 1923 Incubation Fresh

Nest a hollow in a thick clump of low fleshy weeds, lined with a few pieces of seaweed and the same fleshy weeds. A fairly large colony nesting on the higher portion of the island, some on the bare sand, others in the thin growth of weeds, which were low and straggling.

Collected by Roy W. Quillin

HENRY O. HAVEMEYER.
MAHWAH,
NEW JERSEY.

502

ORN.E.00224