CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 189 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Eight specimens. ; two taken on Toronto Island by Mr. S. 
Herring ; the others at Indian Head, Assa., Edmonton, Allta., 
Revelstoke and Spence’s Bridge, B.C., by Mr. W. Spreadborough. 
Of eggs we have several sets taken at Indian Head, Assa., 
June 27th, 1892, and Edmonton, Alta., May Ioth, 1897, by Mr. W. 
Spreadborough ; and others from Reaburn and Grenfel, Man. 
274. Semipalmated Plover. 
Egiahitis semtpalmata Bonar. 1838. 
This species is a summer migrant in Newfoundland, Labrador 
and the islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, breeding more or 
less abundantly. In Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward 
Island, Quebec and Ontario it is reported as a migrant only; yet, 
as Mr. Young shows, it breeds in Ontario, and doubtless in the 
other provinces also. In Manitoba and eastern Assiniboia it is a 
common migrant, and breeds sparingly. The writer saw young 
birds of this species at the salt springs at the head of Lake Winni- 
pegoosis on 22nd July, 1881. 
This bird may be said to make its summer home and bring 
forth its young from Ungava Bay on the northeast coast of Lab- 
rador to Alaska on Norton Sound. It is, however, more plentiful 
east of the Mackenzie than west of it. It is known only asa 
rare migrant in British Columbia, and not known to breed. 
BREEDING Notes.—This bird is found every fall and spring 
on the gravelly bars at the foot of Amherst Island, Lake Ontario. 
There, on the 24th of June, 1895, I found a nest containing four 
fresh eggs. It was built on a gravelly beach, at no great distance 
from the water, amongst a spring growth of a little grass and 
sedge, and in the early spring would probably have been within 
reach of the high water. I met with two pairs of these birds at 
the Magdalen Islands in June, 1897, but could not locate the nest 
though I knew they were breeding. (Rev. C. /. Young ) 
This bird is quite common on parts of the Arctic coast and 
along the Anderson and Lockhart rivers, as well as in the coun- 
try between Fort Anderson and Fort Good Hope, Mackenzie 
River. Most of the twenty nests taken contained four eggs, and 
several but two or three. When closely approached, the female 
