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ing in marshes at Indian Head and Crane Lake, Assa., a! Banff, 
Rocky Mountains, and at Kamloops, B.C. (Spreadborough.) In 
a marsh at Crane Lake, composed chiefly of Carex aristata anda 
few clumps of Scirpus lacustris, the writer, in the course of an 
hour’s wading, discovered eighteen nests of this species, nearly 
all of which contained eleven eggs. From ten to twelve was the 
usual number. The young hatch out very irregularly, and as fast 
as they come from the shell they leave the nest and take to the 
water. The nests were all made of the dead Scirpus and lined 
with the broad leaves of the Carex. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
One taken by Mr. S. Herring in Toronto marsh, and two others 
at Kamloops, B.C., by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
A set of twelve eggs, taken by Mr. Dippie at Long Lake, Man, 
Also a set containing six eggs of the Coot and two of the Lesser 
Scaup, taken at Burnt Lake, Alberta, June 14th, 1896, and pre- 
sented to the Museum by the same gentleman. 
OrDER LIMICOLA. SxHoreE Birbs. 
Famity XIX. PHALAROPODIDA. Puararopes. 
LXXXI. CRYMOPHILUS VIeE.tior. 1816. 
222. Red Phalarope. 
Crymophilus fulicarius (LINN.) STEJN. 1885. 
Said to be the latest summer bird to arrive in Greenland ; very 
rare in the south and not known to breed below Lat. 68° N., but 
thence northward, common. (Arct.Man.) It isa common migrant 
in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec, but 
rare in Ontario and prefers the coast to the more inland waters. 
It is abundant on the shores of Hudson Strait and a few breed 
there according to Turner. Only two specimens have been seen 
on the prairies by the writer, one shot on Long Lake, in July, 
1879, and another on Old Wives Lake, in May, 1895. Fannin 
mentions the species as being taken in British Columbia at Bur- 
rard Inlet and at Chilliwack only. 
This species abounds in high northern latitudes, breeds on 
the North Georgian Islands and Melville Peninsula, and was 
often seen by northern expeditions swimming in the sea far 
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