146 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
from land. (Aechardson.) This bird is fairly abundant on the 
shores of Franklin Bay, where nests were obtained on marshy 
flats in the first week of July, 1864. (MMWacfarlane.) This species 
arrives at the Yukon mouth and adjacent parts of the Behring 
Sea coast during the last days of May and the beginning of 
June. It breeds abundantly on all the coasts and islands and 
far into the interior. (/Ve/son.) The Red Phalarope arrives at 
St. Michael about the beginning of June. It is not abundant at 
any time but is rather more common on the mainland than on 
the island of St. Michael. In the neighborhood of the Yukon 
Delta it is abundant throughout the summer. (Zwrner.) One 
of the commonest birds at Point Barrow, and remaining till late 
in October when the sea begins to close. (MJurdoch.) 
BREEDING NoTrs.—Very early in June, at St. Michael, Alaska, 
the eggs are laid ina slight depression, generally on the damp 
flats where the birds are found. There is rarely any lining to the 
nest. Towards the end of June most of the young are hatched 
and by the middle of July are on the wing. The sites chosen for 
this bird’s nest are very similar to those taken by P. dobatus, 
except that the latter may pick dryer situations. One nest was 
taken on June 8th within six feet of a brackish pool, the eggs 
being deposited in a nest of dried leaves under a dwarf willow. 
(Nelson.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two specimens taken in Toronto marsh by Mr. S. Herring. 
LXXXII. PHALAROPUS Brisson. 1760. 
223. Northern Phalarope. 
Phalaropus lobatus (LANN.) SALVAD. 1872. 
Seems to be the commonest species of Phalarope in Greenland, 
and possibly very far to the northward. (Arct. Man.) Breeds on 
islets in Ungava Bay and is common along the northern coast 
of Labrador. (Zzrner.) Observed about a dozen in asmall pond 
on an island in James Bay, June 16th, 1896, where they were 
evidently breeding. None were seen in the interior of Labrador. 
(Spreadborough.) A migrant in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and 
New Brunswick. 
In Quebec and Ontario it is acommon migrant andis doubtless 
common in summer in all parts of Hudson Bay, where it undoubt- 
