CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS I9I 



piper does not lay its eggs in a nest on the ground like other sand- 

 pipers, but takes possession of the nests of other birds, built in 

 trees, just the same as its old world representative, the green sand- 

 piper, is known to do. 



Mr. Raine sends the following note on the nests found by him 

 in 1906: "During June, 1906, we were fortunate in finding three 

 nests of this bird in northern Alberta. The first was on June 5th. 

 It contained four eggs laid in the old-nest of a Canada jay that 

 was built in a small spruce tree five feet from the ground. On June 

 8th, 1906, we found another set of four eggs laid in the nest of a 

 Brewer blackbird about fifteen feet from the ground, and again 

 on June nth we found another set of four eggs laid in an old king, 

 bird's nest at least twenty feet up in a poplar tree. So far, I have 

 had nine clutches of eggs of this bird and all were laid in old nests 

 of other birds built in trees, and besides the above named nests, 

 this bird lays its eggs in that of the American robin, cedar wax- 

 wing and bronzed grackle." 



Mr. P. Garrett, of Didsbury, Alta., found a nest of the solitary 

 sandpiper in a spruce tree at Fallen Timber creek, Alta., in an old 

 nest of the Bohemian waxwing. The spruce was about twelve feet 

 high and the nest about four and a half feet from the ground. The 

 tree was near a slough, watered by springs flowing out slowly into 

 the river. The nest contained three eggs. 



256a. Cinnamon Solitary Sandpiper. 



Helodromas solitarius cinnamomeus Brewster. 1890. 



Summer resident in the interior of British Columbia; at Ducks 

 near Kamloops, I saw individuals that were not yet able to fly. 

 and must have been hatched in the vicinity. (Streator.) Tolerably 

 common migrant in Saskatchewan, June 30th to July 30th, 1906. 

 {A. C. Bent.) The common form near Didsbury, Alta. Only one 

 specimen of typical solitarius seen. (P. Garrett.) Taken at Chil- 

 liwack and Okanagan, B.C., by Mr. A. C. Brooks. (Kermode.) 

 Seen at Log Cabin, B.C., and Lake Marsh and Little Salmon river, 

 Yukon. (Bishop.) 



It is probable that all the British Columbia and Alaska references 

 under solitarius and many of those from the Northwest Territories 

 should go here. 



