CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 157 
nest and take to the water. The nests were all made of the dead 
Scripus and lined with the broad leaves of the Carex. 
OrvDER. LIMICOLA. SxHore Birps. 
Famity XIX. PHALAROPODIDAE. PuHararopes. 
LXXXVII. CRYMOPHILUS Vietior. 1816. 
222. Red Phalarope. 
Crymophilus fulicartus (LINN.) STEJN. 1885. 
Said to be the latest summer bird to arrive in Greenland; very 
rare in the south and not known to breed below lat. 68° N., but 
thence northward,common. (Arct. Man.) Itisa common migrant 
in Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, including Sable island, 
New Brunswick and Quebec, but rare in Ontario and prefers the 
coast to the more inland waters. It is abundant on the shores of 
Hudson strait and a few breed there according to Turner. Common 
and breeding around Hudson bay. Only two specimens have been 
seen on the prairies by the writer, one shot on Long lake, in July, 
1879, and another on Old Wives lake, in May, 1895. Fannin men- 
tions the species as being taken in British Columbia at Burrard 
Inlet and at Chilliwack only. 
This species abounds in high northern latitudes, breeds on the 
North Georgian islands and Melville peninsula, and was often seen 
by northern expeditions swimming in the sea far from land. (Rzch- 
ardson.) This bird is fairly abundant on the shores of Franklin 
bay, where nests were obtained on marshy flats in the first week of 
July, 1864. (Macjfarlane.) This species arrives at the Yukon 
mouth and adjacent parts of the Bering sea coast during the last 
days of May and the beginning of June. It breeds abundantly on 
all the coasts and islands and far into the interior. (Nelson.) The 
red phalarope arrives at St. Michael about the beginning of June. 
It is not abundant at any time but is rather more common on the 
mainland than on the island of St. Michael. In the neighborhood 
of the Yukon delta it is abundant throughout thesummer. (Twrner.) 
One of the commonest birds at Point Barrow, and remaining till late 
in October when the sea begins to close. (Murdoch.) We sawfa 
