388 bulletin: museum of comparative zoology. 



Murdoch found Northern Phalaropes very rare at Point Barrow 

 only seeing two alive while the Red Phalarope was one of the 

 commonest birds. Mcllhenny took only six specimens in 1898 at 

 Point Barrow; where a series of eighty -five Red Phalaropes was 

 secured. 



East of Point Barrow our experience would indicate that the 

 Northern is nearly if not quite as common as the Red Phalarope. 

 Like the latter its relative abundance varied greatly from day to day. 



Fresh eggs (four to the set) were taken on June 17 and 21; eggs 

 one fourth incubated on June 26, and a set about to hatch on July 9. 

 In all cases the nests were very poor, mere hollows in tufts of grass 

 lined with a few wisps of the same material, the eggs in two instances 

 resting in a quarter of an inch of water. 



Gruidae. 

 Grus canadensis (Linne). 



LITTLE BROWN CRANE. 



Two pairs of Little Brown Cranes were nesting on the west side of 

 Providence Bay, in June 1913, and two pairs were seen on the south- 

 east end of St. Lawrence Island where a pair and one juvenile about 

 a week old were taken June 27, 1913. 



Mr. Dixon saw a single bird at Humphrey Point, May 17, 1914. 



Anatidae. 

 Olor columbianus (Ord). 



WHISTLING SWAN. 



Two pairs of swans were seen flying past the southeast point of St. 

 Lawrence Island, June 28, 1913. 



At Demarcation Point a single Whistling Swan flew west June 1, 

 1914. On the 28th of the same month an Eskimo killed one of 

 these birds ten miles east of Demarcation Point, the unsexed skin of 

 which he brought me. Mr. Dixon took a female at Humphrey Point, 

 on June 15. 



