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BREEDING Notes.—A pair nested in a field near Bracebridge, 
Muskoka, Ont., a few years since, but the species is rare in this 
district. (Spreadborough.) It is becoming scarcer every year in 
the St. Lawrence valley. A few birds breed in the vicinity of the 
lake near MacIntosh Mills, Ont. I met with a nest on June 3rd, 
1891. It was made on a little mossy hillock in a small clump of 
second-growth trees, near a large’ grove, and at no great distance 
from the edge of the lake. At that date the eggs—four in number 
—were greatly incubated. They exactly resembled those of the 
old-world species, but are smaller. This bird is still not uncommon 
(1906) in the vicinity of Madoc, Hastings county, Ont. It breeds 
in the townships of Huntingdon and Rawdon. (Rev. C. J. Young.) 
On May 2oth, 1895, Mr. Robert Johnson of the Geological Survey 
found a nest of this species in a piece of swampy ground on the left 
of the Chelsea road, south of the crossing of the Gatineau Valley 
railway. It was on a hummock in the swamp and was merely a 
depression lined with grass and sheltered by cedar bushes. The 
locality is about four miles from Ottawa. 
XCIII. GALLINAGO LEaAcu. 1816. 
229. European Snipe. 
Gallinago gallinago (LINN.) LicuT. 1854. 
One received from Dr. Paulsen in 1845, but this species has been 
so often observed in Greenland that it may very likely breed there. 
(Arct. Man.) This species and the next are, according to Winge 
(Greenland Birds, p. 176), about equally numerous in Greenland. 
Neither is common. He thinks they may perhaps breed. 
230. Wilson Snipe. 
Gallinago delicata (ORD) A. O. U. List. 1886. 
A common summer migrant and breeds in Newfoundland, Nova 
Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and abundantly on 
all the islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as well as in Quebec 
and eastern Ontario. Spreadborough found it breeding from Mis- 
sinabi north to Cape Henrietta Maria, James bay, and at Great 
Whale river, Hudson bay, where he saw one with a young brood in 
July, 1896. 
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