CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN BIRDS. 167 
Fraser valley. Spreadborough saw one individual in a marsh on 
the Grand prairie, Peace river, Atha., in 1903, and found it in large 
flocks at Stubbs island, west coast of Vancouver Island, August, 
1893. 
BREEDING Notes.—This species arrives quite early at the Yukon 
mouth, often by the roth May. Towards the end of the month 
it is plentiful and is beginning to breed. On June 16th, while cross- 
ing a tussock-covered hill-top, over a mile from any water, I was 
surprised to see a female of this species flutter from her nest about 
six feet in front of me and skulk off through the grass with trailing 
wings and depressed head for some ten or fifteen yards. She stood, 
nearly concealed by a tuft of grass, and watched me as I pillaged 
her nest of its treasures. The eggs, four in number, rested in a 
shallow depression formed by.the bird’s body in the soft moss, and 
without a trace of lining. Other nests taken were of the same 
character. By the last of July the young birds can fly with their 
parents. (Nelson.) <A few nests of this species were taken between 
the 21st June and July 1st. The eggs were always four in number. 
(Macjarlane.) J was astonished to find this Arctic-breeding bird 
nesting amongst the muskegs in northern Alberta. On June 3rd, 
1906, I found a nest containing four handsome eggs. It was built 
in the middle of a bunch of grass like that of the Wilson snipe but 
its eggs are not so olive in ground colour and are more like those of 
the buff-breasted sandpiper. The bird sat close but was easily 
identified as it flew and settled a short distance off. (Aaine.) Mr. 
Raine sends this note under the heading of W/. griseus but from what 
is known of the range of the two species the bird seen seems more 
likely to have been MW. scolopaceus. Until specimens are collected 
the nesting of this bird in Alberta must remain in doubt. 
XCV. MICROPALAMA Batrp. 1858. 
233. Stilt Sandpiper. 
Micropalama himantopus (BONAP.) BatRbD. 1858. 
Not common at Cow Head, Newfoundland. One specimen killed 
in September, 1867. (Reeks.) Not rare in New Brunswick, but on 
account of its rapid migration it is not often noticed. (Chamberlain.) 
Fort Churchill, Hudson bay. (Wright.) A male bird was shot on 
the mud beside a pool on the tundra about 50 miles north of York 
