In North-West Canada. '^^'^ 



the other species of North-West buzzards by their smaller size. 

 Before me is a series of twenty eggs of this bird ; the ground 

 colour is white or bluish white, and the eggs are usually well- 

 spotted and blotched with reddish-brown. 



A set of two eggs taken at Crescent Lake, Assiniboia, May 

 29th, 1890, are very handsome. The ground colour is clean 

 bluish white ; one of the eggs has heavy blotches of rich chest- 

 nut brown at the butt end, and the other has the smaller end 

 capped with the same heavy colouring. These two eggs 

 measure 2.25x1.78 and 2.15x1.63. 



I saw a red-throated diver swimming amongst some rushes, 

 so waded in this direction and searched the spot for its nest 

 without success. 



Later I flushed a little brown crane, but saw no signs of a 

 nest in the vicinity. I took a few clutches of long-billed 

 marsh wren and red-winged starling, and later came across 

 a nest and four eggs of the Bartram's sandpiper on the margin 

 of the lake. I flushed a short-eared owl and also surprised a 

 fox out of the rushes that fringed the lake. 



Long Lake is a fine resort for wild fowl, and in the fall of 

 the year the lake swarms with all manner of geese, ducks, and 

 other water birds. In Winnipeg I saw a number of rare 

 plovers and sandpipers that were shot at Long Lake, includ- 

 ing specimens of purple sandpiper, sanderling, eskimo curlew, 

 black-bellied plover, American golden plover, turnstone, knot 

 and other rare birds that breed within the Arctic circle. 

 Speaking of the knot, I take this opportunity of describing a 

 set of two eggs of this bird in my possession, that were col- 

 lected in Iceland. An authentic efrg of the knot has for many 

 years been the object of special and diligent search by natural- 

 ists and explorers travelling in the Arctic ]-egions where the 

 bird is known to breed. Lieutenant A. W. Greely, U.S.A., 

 commander of the late expedition to Lady Franklin Sound, 

 succeeded in obtaining the long-sought for egg of the knot. 

 C. H. Merriam publishes the account of it written by Lieuten- 

 ant Greely, as follows : " The specimen of bikl and egg were 

 N:)tained in the vicinity of Fort Conger, latitude of 81" 44' 



