CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. Ig! 
BREEDING NoteEs.—A very noisy species that is quite abundant 
at the Magdalen Islands, where I found four nests in 1897, but I 
have not observed it in Ontario. It is an interesting bird running 
along the sandy beach at a great speed and stopping now and 
again to utter its shrill note. Being so much lighter in color it 
is at once distinguished from @. semipalmata, as well as by its 
note. The first nest I found was on the 16th of June. It was on 
one of the sandy bars of Grindstone Island. The nest consisted 
of a little hole scooped out on a small hummock of sand, and was 
tessellated as it were with broken pieces of clam shells, after the 
manner of the Ring Plover of Great Britain. No grass or bits 
of bark are used as with @. semipalmata. ‘The other nests were 
identical, the eggs being fresh in the second week in June. (Rev. 
C.J. Young.) In the latter part of June, 1888, the writer found 
three nests of this species on the sands of Brackley Beach, Prince 
Edward Island. They were mere holes in the sand or rather 
fine gravel and broken shells and without any lining whatever. 
The bird and its surroundings were so much alike that it was only 
by accident that any nests were found. Mr. W. Saunders writes 
that he has an egg which is probably of this species from Long 
Point, Lake Erie, and also a young bird, only a few days old, 
taken on Point Pelee, Lake Erie, and that the birds are still to be 
found in these and other suitable localities in summer. 
MUSEUM SPECIMENS. 
Two specimens, taken at Toronto, Ont., by Mr. S. Herring. 
One set of four eggs taken on Grindstone Island, Magdalen 
Islands in June Igth, 1897, by the Rev. C J. Young. 
277a. Belted Piping Plover. 
Eeialitts meloda circumcincta’ RipGw. 1874. 
This form is quite common on Sable Island nearly 100 miles 
east of Canso, N.S., and breeds there in numbers every year. 
The writer procured specimens on the island in August 
1899 and saw no difference between them and those taken at 
Indian Head, Assa., in 1892. No doubt this is the form men- 
tioned under the head of Piping Plover by Seton-Thompson in 
his Birds of Manitoba. This species did not reach Deep Lake, 
Indian Head, Assa., until May 16th, 1892. In three days they 
were common. Shortly after they dispersed to breed, only a few 
