CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 1 83 



bay on the i6th of June, 1896, which were doubtless breeding. As 

 the mouth of the Severn river, where Hutchins found it breeding, 

 is 300 miles to the northwest, this bird probably breeds on the west 

 and south shores of Hudson bay and on some of the larger interior 

 lakes. Found breeding at Fullerton, Hudson bay by Low. 



CIV. LIMOSA Brisson. 1760. 



249. Marbled Godwit, 



Limosa fedoa (Linn.) Sabine. 1823. 



Recorded from several Hudson Bay localities. A periodical 

 visitor in Newfoundland, especially in the autumn; very rare in 

 Nova Scotia and New Brunswick; rare in Quebec and Ontario, 

 and always as a migrant. It is a common summer resident from 

 eastern Manitoba to the Rocky mountains, seeming to prefer the 

 margins of brackish lakes and pools. It is more plentiful north of 

 the Canadian Pacific railway than south of it, and is particularly 

 abundant on the plains south of Battleford, Sask. 



First seen at Indian Head, Sask., April 29th, 1892; after this 

 they kept arriving up to June 24th, when I saw a number in a 

 large marsh. They appeared to be breeding, but I failed to find 

 any nests. (Spreadborough.) Fannin reports this bird from the 

 Similkameen district, in southern British Columbia, and says it 

 breeds east of the coast range. Mcllhenny obtained one bird of 

 the year at Point Barrow, Alaska, August 26th, 1897. 



Breeding Notes. — Breeding on both coasts of James bay in 

 1904. (Spreadborough.) Very common about all the lakes we 

 visited in Saskatchewan. Breeding in the meadows. (A. C. Bent.) 

 Breeds regularly in all the larger marshes in Manitoba and was 

 noted in 1906 in similar localities as far west as Edmonton. {Atkin- 

 son.) Although this bird is so plentiful on the prairies its eggs are 

 seldom taken on account of the bird being so wary and the male 

 bird being always on the alert to warn the female. On June 6th, 

 1 901, while driving to Saltcoats marsh in northern Saskatchewan 

 we flushed a bird off its nest containing four eggs. The nest was 

 a mere hollow in the ground lined with bits of dry grass. (Raine.) 



