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Qu'Appelle : Common summer resident ; breeds ; arrives April 17 

 (Guernsey). 



July 7, 1882, at Silver Creek, saw a single downliug Kildeer running 

 on the trail just before the oxen ; both its parents were flying about, 

 uttering their loud laments and trying to decoy the young one aside, but 

 could not get it out of the wagon rut into which it had fallen ; it ran on 

 straight, try i!ig to keep ahead of the oxen, till I caught it. It was the most 

 fawn-like thing I ever saw in feathers; its large lustrous eyes were 

 turned on me with an expression of fearless innocence that was touch- 

 ing, and when I set the little ball of down at liberty on the prairie it 

 walked gracefully away without betraying any consciousness of having 

 been in the power of its worst enemy. It was apparently newly hatched, 

 but the markings of its downy coat were similar to those of the adult 

 birds, minus the orange. 



93. ^gialitis seimipalmata. Semipalmatcd Plover. Ring Plover. 



Rare migrant between Hudson Bay and Lake Winnipeg (Murray). 

 Winnipeg. Summer resident; rare(Hine). Common at Lake Winnipeg 

 in June (Kinnicott). Portage la Prairie : Very abundant in August, fre- 

 quenting tbe sand-bars on the Assiniboine with the Least Sandpiper 

 (Nash). Abundant with Kildeer, and evidently breeding, as I saw young 

 with them at the salt springs on Red Deer River, July 22, 1881 ; at Lake 

 Manitoba (Macoun). Brandon : One seen April 28, 1882, another May 

 25 (Wood). Trout Lake Station and Severn House; plentiful in Arctic 

 America (Murray). 



94. ^gialitis meloda. Piping Plover. Ring-neck. 



Migrant; possibly breeds also. Winnipeg : Summer resident; toler- 

 ably common (Hine). Procured four specimens at Lake Winnipeg (D. 

 Gunn). Portage la Prairie : Occurs in the migrations with the Semi- 

 palmated Plover (Nash). Shot migrating in company with Sanderliugs 

 on the shores of Lake Manitoba, June 12, 1881 (Macoun). 



95. Arenaria interpres. Turnstone. 



Migrant. Winnipeg : Rare, but occurs about the prairie ponds here, 

 and on shore of Lake Winnipeg in pairs; apparently goes north to the 

 large lakes to breed ; returns about the middle of August (Hine). Lake 

 Winnipeg (Brewer). Severn House (Murray). 



96. Dendragapus canadensis. Spruce Partridge. 



Resident in the spruce forests of the north and east; common. Win- 

 nipeg : Summer resident; abundant in spruce woods, but so tame and 

 fearless that its pursuit can scarcely be called sport (Hine). A specimen 

 in Smithsonian Institution from Red River Settlement (Blakiston). Does 

 not occur in the immediate vicinity of Portage la Prairie or Winnipeg, 



