CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS ISI 
found a nest with four eggs on June 26th, 1897, built in a dry 
grassy place amongst spruce bushes in just such a place as one 
would occupy in Ontario. (Rev. C. /. Young.) The writer has 
found this species breeding in the sandhills at Brackley Point, 
Prince Edward Island, and on Cape Forteau, near Yarmouth, N.S., 
where a nest containing four eggs was taken on June 23rd, 1883. 
On June 29th, 1895, a nest containing four eggs was taken on the 
shore of Cypress Lake, Assa. The nest was of dried grass con- 
cealed under a tuft of old grass close to the lake and was only 
discovered by flushing the bird. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Ten specimens ; two taken at Toronto, Ont., by Mr. S. Her- 
ring; the others by Mr. W. Spreadborough at Indian Head, 
Assa., at Canmore and Banff, Alberta, and at Revelstoke, 
Griffin Lake and Spence’s Bridge, B. C. 
We have eggs taken on the Upper Hamilton River, Labrador, 
by Mr. A. P. Low, June 25th, 1894; and another set taken at 
Repulse Bay, Hudson Strait, by Captain A. Manny in June, 1896; 
a third set was taken by the writer at Cypress Lake, Assa, June 
29th, 1895. 
XCVII. NOUMENIUS Brisson. 1760. 
264. Long-billed Curlew. 
Numenius longirostris \NILS. 1814. 
. Arare migrant in Newfoundland, and still rarer in Nova Scotia 
and New Brunswick. Rather more common in Quebec and 
Ontario, but only known asa migrant. In Manitoba this bird is 
comparatively rare as a breeding bird, but in Assiniboia and 
Alberta it is common, and extends its breeding-grounds across 
the Rocky Mountains into British Columbia, where Mr. Fannin 
found it breeding at Okanagan and Similkameen. Its range to 
the north is limited, as we have no notices of it from north of 
the prairie districts, and only one specimen is recorded from 
Alaska. A few specimens have been taken at Victoria and in 
the Lower Fraser valley, B.C. 
BreEpING Nores.—A nest of this species was taken by Col. 
Wyndham on the Bow River, about fifty miles southeast of Cal- 
gary, Alta. Nest just a hollow in the ground, on the bare prairie 
lined with a few straws. (Dippie.) 
