CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. I5I 
the St. Lawrence valley. <A few birds breed in the vicinity of the 
lake near MacIntosh Mills, Ont. I met with a nest on June 3rd, 
1891. It was made on a little mossy hillock in a small clump of 
second-growth trees, near a large grove, and at no great distance 
from the edge of the lake. At that date the eggs—four in number 
—were greatly incubated. They exactly resembled those of the 
old-world species. (Rev. C.J. Young.) On May 2oth, 1895, Mr. 
Robert Johnson of the Geological Survey found a nest of this 
species in a piece of swampy ground on the left of the Chelsea 
road, south of the crossing of the Gatineau Valley Railway. It 
was on a hummock in the swamp and was merely a depression 
lined with grass and sheltered by cedar bushes. The locality is 
about four miles from Ottawa. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two specimens, one presented by Dr. Charles Saunders, the 
other purchased in 1885 with the Holman collection. 
LXXXVIIL GALLINAGO Leacu. 1816. 
229. European Snipe. 
Gallinago gallinago (LINN.) Licur. 1854. 
One received from Dr. Paulsen in 1845, but the species has been 
so often fobserved in Greenland that it may very likely breed 
there. (Arct. Man.) This species and the next are, according 
to Winge (Greenland Birds, p. 176) about equally numerous in 
Greenland. Neither is common. He thinks they may perhaps 
breed. 
230. Wilson’s Snipe. 
Gallinago dehicata (Ord) A.O.U.List. 1886. 
A common summer migrant and breeds in Newfoundland, Nova 
Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and abundantly on 
all the islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as well as in Quebec 
and eastern Ontario. Spreadborough found it breeding in a 
marsh at Moose Factory, James Bay, and at Great Whale River, 
Hudson Bay, where he saw one with a young brood in July, 1896. 
In the west, it is found throughout the whole prairie region, 
especially in all marshes in the wooded country, but never in con- 
siderable numbers. Seldom more than two pairs are seen in the 
