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species to our fauna. Afterwards it was found to be the most 
common species of snipe at St. Michael, frequenting the borders 
of brackish pools and tide-creeks in company with other species. 
At Port Clarence and Kotzebue Sound, single specimens have 
been taken and these, with those taken by the writer at St. 
Michael, include all the specimens up to date. (Velson.) Taken 
at Massett, Queen Charlotte Islands, B.C., Dec. 27th, 1897, by 
Rev. J. H. Keen. (Fannin.) A species of Eastern Asia and evi- 
dently breeding near the mouth of the Yukon. 
239. Pectoral Sandpiper. Jack-snipe. 
Tringa maculata VYEILL. 1819. 
One was received from Greenland in 1851 by the Copenhagen 
Museum, and two others were sent there from near Disco in 1859. 
(Arct. Man.) Occasional in Greenland. Several skins have been 
taken since 1860. (Winge.) A common migrant along the whole 
Atlantic Coast from Cape Chudleigh south to New Brunswick, 
and in Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba, but rare farther west. 
Only one specimen was seen by Mr. Spreadborough at Indian 
Head, Assa., in the spring of 1892, and further west, along Milk 
River, a female was shot, July 16th, 1895. 
Nelson and Murdoch say that it is common in Alaska, breeding 
in numbers as far north as Point Barrow. North of the Mackenzie 
River and along the Anderson River, farther east, it is quite rare, 
as Macfarlane saw very few and obtained no nests. Fannin and 
Brooks report that it is not common in the migrations in British 
Columbia. On Stubb Island, on the west coast of Vancouver 
Island, Spreadborough killed ten at one shot in August, 1893. 
BREEDING Nores.—This species arrives at Point Barrow about 
the end of May or early in June, and frequents the small ponds 
and marshy portions of the tundra along the shore, sometimes 
associated with other small waders, especially with the Buff- 
breasted Sandpiper, on the high banks of the Nunava. They 
begin pairing soon after their arrival,and are frequently to be 
seen chasing each other in the air with a loud chatter. The nest 
is always built in the grass, with a decided preference for high 
and dry localities, such as the banks of gullies and streams. It is 
sometimes placed at the edge of a small pool, but always in grass 
and in a dry place, never in the black clay and moss, like the 
