160 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
Plover and Buff-breasted Sandpiper, or in a marsh like the 
Phalaropes. All the complete sets contained four eggs. (Mur- 
doch.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two specimens ; one taken at Ottawa, Ont., in October, 1884, by 
Mr. Ernest White, the other shot by Mr. W. Spreadborough on 
Milk River, Alberta, July 16th, 1895. 
240. White-rumped Sandpiper. 
Tringa fuscicolts NEILL. 1810. 
Believed by Holbcell to breed near Julianshaab, Greenland, 
where both old and young birds have been seen. (Avct. Man ) 
A fewskins taken in Greenland since 1840. Perhaps a few breed. 
(Winge.) A common migrant along the whole Atlantic coast and 
Gulf of St. Lawrence as well as the river up to Montreal, becom- 
ing scarcer in Ontario and increasing again in Manitoba where it 
is common asa migrant. A few seen as far west as Crane Lake, 
Assa. A few must breed around Indian Head, Assa., as they 
were observed tiiere from May goth to July Ist, 1892, when 
Spreadborough left. Sir John Richardson says this species is not 
infrequent on the shores of the small lakes that skirt the 
Saskatchewan plains. Murdoch records the shooting of two birds 
of this species at Point Barrow which is the only Alaskan record. 
Payne says they occur in large flocks in late summer at Cape 
Prince of Wales, Hudson Strait,. but “do not breed’) Bore 
Spreadborough and Turner found them in large numbers in 
Ungava Bay, Labrador, in the autumn, and Macfarlane found a 
few breeding on the shores of Franklin Bay, Arctic Sea. Their 
chief breeding-ground would seem to be north of Hudson Bay 
and northwesterly along the shores of the Arctic Sea to the 
mouth of the Mackenzie River. 
BREEDING Notes.—Several nests of this Sandpiper were taken 
on or near the Arctic coast of Franklin Bay. One taken July 3rd 
contained four eggs with very large embryos. Another discover- 
ed on the following day held but three eggs. A third found in 
the Barren Grounds on the 29th June was, like the rest, ashallow 
depression in the ground, lined with a few decayed leaves, con- 
taining four eggs, also having very large embryos. <A fourth, on 
the banks of a small river, held four eggs. (Macfarlane.) 
