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of those birds passing the post ou their usual spring? aud autumn 

 migrations. Six hundred and fifty eggs were packed up for shipment 

 from Fort Anderson. 



180. Olor columbianus (Ord). Whistling Swan. 



The maximum number of eggs taken in the twenty nests of this 

 swan, which I find recorded, was five, while the nest itself was always 

 placed on the ground, and several were also found ou the coast and 

 islands of Liverpool and Franklin Bays in the Arctic Ocean. 



181. Olor buccinator (Richardson). Trumpeter Swan. 



Several nests of this species were met with in the Barren Grounds, 

 on islands in Franklin Baj', and one containing six eggs was situated 

 near the beach on a sloping knoll. It was composed of a quantity of 

 hay, down, and feathers intermixed, and this "was the general mode of 

 structure of the nests of both swans. It usually lays from four to six 

 eggs, judging from the noted contents of a received total of twenty- 

 four nests. 



■ 204. Grus americaiia (Linnpeus). Whooping Crane. 



We never succeeded in finding a nest of this crane, which undoubt- 

 edly breeds in Arctic America as well as in the country to the south- 

 ward, as a few flocks were observed flying past Fort Anderson both in 

 spring and autumn. 



205. Grus canadensis (Linn.). Little Brown Crane. 



A skin was obtained from an Esquimau of the Lower Anderson in 

 the autumn of 1863, and an egg was found in a nest in Franklin Bay 

 in June, 1864. A second was discovered the following season on an 

 island in Liverpool Bay, while the eggs (two each) and parents of two 

 other uests, received from the Lower Anderson in the spring of 1866, 

 were afterwards among those referred to as having been destroyed by 

 animals. The nest is usually but a mere cavity in the sandy soil, 

 thickly lined with dry grasses, etc. 



222. Crymophilns fulicarius (Linu.). Red Phalarope. 



This bird is fairly abundant on the shores of Franklin Bay, where 

 nests were obtained amid marshy flats in the first week in July, 1864, 

 and again in July, 1865. 



223. Phalaropus lobatus (Linn.). Northern Phalarope. 



Occurs in great abundance during the breeding season in the wooded 

 country and in the Barren Grounds right to the coast, where it is, 

 however, not numerous. The nest, like that of the Eed Phalarope, is 

 a slight depression in the ground, lined with a few dry leaves and 

 grasses, and is almost invariably situated on the margin of small pools 



