33 The Ottawa Naturalist. [May 



LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED ON THE PEEL RIVER 

 IN 1906 BY MR. CHARLES CAMSELL. 



Papaver nudicaule, L., Braine Creek. 



Lupinus arcticus, Wats., Stewart River. 



Myosotis alpestris, Koch., Bear Creek. 



Echinospermum deftexutn, Lehm., Bear Creek. 



Pyrola rotundifolia, L. var. pumila Hook., Beaver River. 



Primula Mistassinica, Michx., Beaver River. 



Pinguicula vulgaris, L., Beaver River. 



Phlox Richardsonii, Hook., Wind River. 



Cypripedium guttatum, Swartz., Hungry Creek. 



Linum Lewisii, Pursh., Wind River. 



Dryas octopetala, L., Beaver River. 



Epilobium latifolium, L., Wind River. 



Hedysarum Mackenzii, Richards, Wind River. 



Potentilla fruticosa, L., Beaver River. 



WILSON'S PHALAROPE.* 



On June 9th, 1885, a nest containing three eggs of the above 

 bird was found on the south bank of the Grand River a half mile 

 below Dunnville, Haldimand Co., Ontario. As the nest and eggs 

 were strange and neither parent bird was present it was de- 

 termined to leave it until the next morning and to visit it again 

 in the hope that one or both parents would be at home. On the 

 morning of the 10th a second visit was made when the male bird 

 flew off the nest and was shot. When the nest was examined I 

 was disgusted to find that two of the three eggs were hatched. 

 The young birds were tiny bits of down, stripped and sotted 

 with dark brown on a buf? ground color. The egg was Ij inch 

 in length by |in width and very dark in color, in fact the large 

 end was covered with two dark brown colors, while the rest of 

 the shell was of a dark bnfi color spotted with dark brown. 



The nest was situated on the bank of the river a few feet 

 from its edge, near a tall tussock of marsh grass and was fairly 

 well formed and made of a little moss and weeds such as grow in 

 that locality. A depression seemed to have first been made in 

 the soft marsh soil which was then lined with moss and fine grass. 



The female bird was not seen. The rest of the family, as 

 taken, are now in my collection. 



G. A. MacCallum. 



*See The Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XV, page 127, where this nest is 

 credited to the buff-breasted sandpiper. Editor 



