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same locality in summer. This species is found in British Colum- 
bia, from the International Boundary to Alaska, and on Vancouver 
Island, where it breeds, and according to Brooksa few winter on 
Lake Okanagan, B.C. Both Turner and Nelson report it of wide 
distribution in Alaska, and Macfarlane found it breeding on the 
Anderson River. 
BREEDING Nores.—A few pairs still breed in the county of 
Leeds, Ont. Early in June, 1892, a nest with four eggs was ob- 
tained at “ Black Pond” near Brockville ; on the gth, June 1896, 
I saw one of these birds perched on a stump ina wet meadow ; 
no doubt the female was nesting in the vicinity. The place where I 
have noticed this species breeding most commonly was on the Mag- 
dalen Islands. There it may still besaid to be plentiful. I obtained 
three eggs, incubated, early in June, 1897. It breeds principally in 
boggy places not far from the sea, and in the breeding season is 
quite noisy and soon makes its presence known. The nest on the 
Magdalen Islands is not, asarule, placed in the wettest part of the 
bog but near the edge of the growth of spruce, where a stunted tree 
struggles to live here and there in the shaking bog. Alongside 
one of these, or even under a branch, a nest may be found, in 
which respect as far as the selection of a breeding-site goes, it 
differs somewhat from its very near relative, the European Snipe. 
(Rev. C.J. Young.) Jam informed by Mr. John Burk, a farmer 
near Rondeau, Lake Erie, and an accurate observer, that he has 
of late years found several nests of this species near the marsh. 
(W. Saunders.) 
The favourite haunts of this bird are the open grassy sloughs or 
bogs which intersect Manitoba. The position of the only nest of 
this species that I found was in a slightly-elevated tussock or sod 
in the middle of a wide muskeg. The nest consisted of a slight 
hollow, with a few straws for lining and was raised only a few 
inches above the water. This was in the third week in July, and 
by the 27th of that month the four young ones were hatched and 
immediately left the nest. (Seton-Thompson.) 
In August, 1894, the writer saw a female and young birds of this 
species in the marsh at St. Patrick’s Street bridge, Ottawa, Ont.; 
early in May, 1890, he founda nest beside a log in a small bog 
close to the Canadian Pacific Railway water-tank at Revel- 
stoke, B.C. The nest was close to the water and any one 
walking along the railway could see the bird, but she hatched out 
