176 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
XCI. SYMPHEMTA Rarinesoue. 181g. 
258. Willet. 
Symphemia semipalmata (GMEL.) HarTL. 1845. 
A common spring and autumn migrant in Ncv oundland. 
(Reeks.) Common in summer and fall in Nova Scotia. Breeds 
at Port Petpiswick. (Downs.) Rather common at Grand Manan, 
New Brunswick. (Herrick.) Very little is known of this species 
in Ontario. Ontwo occasions I have seen it brought in from 
the Hamilton marsh by gunners, but I never saw it alive. (Mc- 
Lwraith.) 
2582. Western Willet. 
Symphema semipalmata tnornata BREWST. 1887. 
This is a common species in the prairie region west of Mani- 
toba. It frequents the margins of saline ponds and brackish 
marshes from western Manitoba to the Rocky Mountains, and 
from Lat:"49° to 56°. It breeds throughout its rance. One 
specimen taken at Clover Point, Victoria, August 8th, 1898, by 
Mr. J. Henley. (Fannin. 
BREEDING NoTeEs.—First seen at Indian Head, Assa., May 6th, 
1892. It was quite common a few days later, and spread itself 
through the marshes where it breeds in considerable numbers ; 
breeding also in great profusion in the marshes around Crane 
Lake in June, 1894. (Spreadborough.) On May 23rd, 1883, on the 
Alkali Plain, north of the land office at Turtle Mountain, I started 
a Willet from her nest, which was placed in a slight hollow, 
shaded on one side by the skull of a buffalo and on the other by 
a tuft of grass. It contained four eggs, ground color, dark olive- 
brown, with heavy, round, dark spots of brown and purple, evenly 
distributed without any approach to a rind about the large end. 
(Thompson.) This species breeds in both Manitoba and Alberta. 
In the latter Province, at Buffalo Lake, I found the young in the 
grass on July 4th, 1895. (Dzppe.) 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Seven specimens ; two taken at Sounding Lake. Alberta, by 
Mr. J. B. Tyrrell, in June, 1886. .All the others were taken by Mr. 
