168 BIRDS OF ONTARIO. 



distribution. It is found in America on both coasts, and also in the 

 interior. At Hamilton Beach it is a regular visitor in spring and 

 fall, but there are seldom more than two or three found together. 



The}'^ are very sociable in their habits, mixing freely with any 

 other waders they chance to meet, and are seen hei'e till the end of 

 the first week in June. 



They are observed again, young and old together, eaily in Sep- 

 tember, and linger around the shores of the bay till the end of that 

 month, when they move farther south to spend the winter. 



They are migrants throughout Ontario and the North- West, but 

 breed abundantly on the barren lands of the Arctic coast and the 

 Anderson River district, and sparingly in Alaska. 



