1899] Taylor Two Land Shell 



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have also a single specimen of this species collected on the main- 

 land of British Columbia, near Scotch-fir Point, which is about 

 forty miles north of the island locality; and a few days ago I 

 secured a fifth specimen under some leaves by Nanaimo River, 

 near my present home. 



The original description of P. Cluppii will be found in the 

 Natitilus, Vol. XI, p. 133, and that of P. Tavlori in the current 

 volume of the Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Philadelphia. 



THE SOLITARY SANDPIPER. — TTV^wwi solitariiis. 



Bv Rev. C. J. Young, Lansdowne, Ont. 



Perhaps one of the most interesting of our small Sandpipers 

 is this species, especially to those who, being fond of out-door life, 

 take an occasional stroll by our ponds and creeks in the spring 

 and "fall " of the year. I observe this species almost every year, 

 and find that its migrations are very regular in Eastern Ontario, 

 between the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, where I have seen 

 it. Taking the years from 1887, when I first began to pay atten- 

 tion to the species: — In that year I saw a pair at a wet place near 

 large woods a lew miles from the Ottawa River, County Renfrew, 

 on the loth of May ; on the 13th two pairs at the same place, and 

 on the 19th August one bird by a creek not far off. In 1888, I 

 saw one on the 12th of May. The next two years I did not ob- 

 serve it ; but coming to the neighborhood of the River St. Law- 

 rence, County Leeds, in 1891, I saw several in a muddy bay oflf 

 Charleston Lake, doubtless a brood of young ones, on September 

 3rd. In the same year, not very far from the same lake, I saw 

 one as late as October 29th. That is the latest record I have. 



In 1892 I saw the bird rise from a wet place near my house 

 on August I St, and again on August 3rd. These were probably 

 birds that had stayed in the neighborhood all the summer. 



In 1893 J ^^^ "ot see any birds, but in 1894 they were more 

 plentiful than usual, and I saw one or more near the village of 

 Lansdowne on the 15th, i8th and 19th May, and one on the iith 

 of June, 



